Tosu language

Tosu
Native to China
Native speakers
 few to none (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 included in ers
Linguist list
 qob (not ISO)
Glottolog tosu1234[2]

Tosu (Chinese: 多续; pinyin: Duōxù) is a possibly extinct Qiangic language of China which shows strong affiliations to both the Loloish languages and to Tangut, the language of the Western Xia. Yu (2012) classifies it as an Ersuic language, which belongs to the Qiangic branch. There are "almost no Tosu speakers left", or "practically" no Ersu speakers left.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Yu (2012:1–2)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tosu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bibliography

  • Yu, Dominic. 2012. Proto-Ersuic. Ph.D. dissertation. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics.

Bibliography

  • Nishida, Tatsuo, 1973, 多続訳語の研究 : 新言語トス語の構造と系統 [A Study of the Tosu–Chinese Vocabulary Tosu I-yu: the structure and lineage of Tosu, a new language], 松香堂 Shokado, Kyoto (Japanese)
  • Nishida, Tatsuo, 1975, "Hsi-hsia, Tosu, and Lolo–Burmese", Sino-Tibetan Conference VIII, Berkeley
  • Nishida, Tatsuo, 1976, "Hsi-hsia, Tosu, and Lolo–Burmese languages", Studia Phonologica 10:1–15


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