Azhe language

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Azhe
Native to China
Ethnicity Yi
Native speakers
ca. 54,000  (2007)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yiz

Azhe (Chinese 阿哲 Azhe; Azhepo; autonym: a˨˩dʐɛ˨pʰo˨˩) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.[2][3]

References

  1. Azhe reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  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 [Outline of classical literature of Yi nationality]. By Huang Jianming. Yunnan minzu chubanshe, 1993.
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