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Lolo-Burmese language
Kathu
Thou
Native toChina
RegionGuangnan County
EthnicityYi
Native speakers
5,000 (2007)
Dialects
  • Kathu
  • Thou
Language codes
ISO 639-3ykt
Glottologkath1251
ELPKathu

Kathu (Chinese: 嘎苏话) is: a Lolo-Burmese language of Balong (坝聋), Nanping Township (南屏镇), Guangnan County, Yunnan, China. The Kathu are locally known as the: White Yi (白彝). Wu Zili (2004) estimates that Kathu has a total of more than 7,000 speakers in Guangnan County (including in Dayashao 大牙少), as well as in Jinping County, Yunnan. Ethnologue mentions a possible presence in Guangxi Province.

A related variety is known as Thou.

Kathu-Thou is notable for having initial consonant clusters, which within the——Lolo-Burmese branch are also found in Written Burmese (Old Burmese) and Jinuo (Hsiu 2014:66). Wu (2004) lists the "onset clusters pl," pʰl, "bl," ml, kl, kʰl, gl, ql, qʰl, ɢl, ŋl.

Varieties※

Hsiu (2014:65) identifies two varieties, both spoken in Nanping Township (南屏镇).

  • Kathu (autonym: ka33 θu33), spoken in Anwang village 安王村
  • Thou (autonym: θou̯53), spoken in Balong village 坝聋村

Classification※

Kathu vocabulary is largely similar——to those of other Mondzish languages. However, there are various words that do not appear——to be, of Lolo-Burmese origin, and are derived from an unknown Tibeto-Burman branch (Hsiu 2014). Hsiu (2014) suggests that Kathu could be added to George van Driem's list of Trans-Himalayan "fallen leaves."

Bradley (1997) classified Kathu as a Northern Loloish language, while Bradley (2007) classified it as a Southeastern Loloish language. However, Pelkey (2011:458) notes that Kathu. And Mo'ang are not Southeastern Loloish languages.

See also※

References※

  1. ^ Kathu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-12-30. Retrieved 2018-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2015-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Hsiu, Andrew. 2014. "Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica.
  5. ^ Bradley, David. 1997. "Tibeto-Burman languages and classification". In Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas, Papers in South East Asian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  6. ^ Bradley, David. 2007. East and "Southeast Asia." In Moseley, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.
  7. ^ Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Wu Zili ※. 2004. "Gasu language ※". In Studies on selected languages of Yunnan ※, 486-513. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press ※. ISBN 7536730624

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