Lavu language
| Lavu | |
|---|---|
| Talu | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Yunnan |
| Ethnicity | Nu |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yta |
| Glottolog |
talu1238[3] |
Lavu (Chinese: 拉乌; autonym: lɑ˥vu̠˥), also known as Talu 他鲁 (tʰa˧˩lu˥ su˥[4]) or Tagu 他谷, is a Loloish language of Yongsheng County, Yunnan, China.
The names Lavu, Talu, Tagu are among a number of small ethnicities which speak varieties of a single, mutually intelligible language. Others are Liude 六得, Nazha 纳渣, and perhaps Shuitian 水田, Zhili 支里, Luo 倮, Ziyi 子彝, and Liming 黎明. Lavu is the name chosen by Lama (2012), Talu by Ethnologue and Glottolog.
Zhou (2004:1) reports that Talu (tha31 lu55 su55) is spoken by just over 10,000 speakers in Yongsheng and Huaping counties. Zhou (2004) focuses on the Talu dialect of Liude Township 六德乡.
References
- ↑ Lavu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012:145), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Talu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Zhou Decai (2004). A study of Taliu. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press.
- Zhou Decai [周德才]. 2004. A study of the Taliu language [他留话研究]. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press [云南民族出版社].
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