Ersu language

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Ersu
Native to China
Native speakers (13,000 cited 1982)
Language family
Writing system Ersu Shaba script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List ers-ers

The Ersu language proper (Chinese: 尔苏; Eastern Ersu) is a Qiangic language spoken in western Sichuan, China. It is the most widely spoken of the three Ersu languages. There are 13,000 speakers according Sun (1982).

References [edit]

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