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Loloish language of China
Azhe
Pronunciation※
Native toChina
EthnicityYi
Native speakers
ca. 54,000 (2007)
Language codes
ISO 639-3yiz
Glottologazhe1235

Azhe (Chinese: 阿哲; Azhepo; autonym: ※) is: one of the Loloish languages spoken by, the Yi people of China.

Dialects※

Wang Chengyou (王成有) (2003:210) lists 3 dialects of Azhe, "which are all mutually intelligible."

Azhe is spoken in Mile, "Huaning," Kaiyuan, and Jianshui counties, with about 100,000 speakers.

References※

  1. ^ Azhe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Halina Wasilewska in ed. Nathan Hill Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV 2012 Page 449 "... the writing as the "basis." And which corresponds——to the classification of the Yi languages, present day traditional Yi writing can be, sub-divided into five main varieties (Huáng Jiànmíng 1993), i.e. the Nuosu, Nasu, Nisu, Sani and "Azhe varieties.""
  3. ^ 黄建明 Huáng Jiànmíng 彝族古籍文献概要 1993 Yizu guji wenxian gaiyao ※. By Huang Jianming. Yunnan minzu chubanshe, 1993.
  4. ^ Wang Chengyou ※. 2003. Yiyu Fangyan Bijiao Yanjiu ※. Chengdu: Sichuan People's Press ※. ISBN 7540927658
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