Luoji language

Luoji
Luoji
Qixingmin
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Qixingmin
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Nisoish Northern Loloish Nasoid Luoji; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Luoji (autonym: luo31 dʑi33)^[1] is a moribund Loloish language of Weining County, Guizhou, China that is spoken by the Qixingmin people. There are a few semi-fluent elderly speakers in Shejie Village 蛇街村, Yangjie Town 羊街镇, Weining County, with no fluent speakers remaining.^[1]^[2]

Classification

The Qixingmin speak a language closely related to the local Yi language, which is intermediate between the Western and Eastern Yi dialects of Weining County (Weining 1997:328).^[3] Some vocabulary items differ, such as the word for 'chili pepper' (Chinese: 辣椒), which is "zi 自" in the Western Yi dialect, "shapo 傻迫" in the Eastern Yi dialect, and "boji 薄几" in Qixingmin.^[3]

However, the Qixingmin claim that they are distinct from the Yi, and that their ancestors spoke a non-Yi language that had become extinct centuries ago.^[1]

Qixingmin is geographically located between the Western Yi and Eastern Yi areas. These languages are spoken in:^[3]

Qixingmin ("Qixingmin Liangzi" 七姓民梁子): Xiangshui 响水, Jinhai 金海, Sandaohe 三道河, Shejie 蛇街, Yangjie 羊街, and Yanjia 严家
Western Yi: Guanfenghai 观风海, Niupeng 牛棚, Dajie 大街, and Longjie 龙街
Eastern Yi: Yancang 盐仓, Jinzhong 金钟, and Ertang 二塘

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hsiu, Andrew. 2013. New endangered Tibeto-Burman languages of southwestern China: Mondzish, Longjia, Pherbu, and others. Presented at ICSTLL 46, Dartmouth College. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1127796
^ Hsiu, Andrew. Luoji.
^ ^a ^b ^c 威宁彜族回族苗族自治县民族事务委员会编. 1997. Weining County Ethnic Gazeteer [威宁彝族回族苗族自治县民族志]. Guiyang: Guizhou People's Press [贵州民族出版社].

[Hsiu2013-1] Hsiu, Andrew. 2013. New endangered Tibeto-Burman languages of southwestern China: Mondzish, Longjia, Pherbu, and others. Presented at ICSTLL 46, Dartmouth College. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1127796

[msealangs-2] Hsiu, Andrew. Luoji.

[Weining1997-3] 威宁彜族回族苗族自治县民族事务委员会编. 1997. Weining County Ethnic Gazeteer [威宁彝族回族苗族自治县民族志]. Guiyang: Guizhou People's Press [贵州民族出版社].

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