Azha language

Azha
Azha
Native to	China
Native speakers	53,000 (2007)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Sani–Azha Azha; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aza
Glottolog	azha1235

Azha is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.

Innovations

In Azha, the words for ‘goat’, ‘eat’, and ‘drink’ are innovative (Pelkey 2011:377). Luojiayi Azha^[2] mɛ³³xɛ³³ ‘goat’, la̠⁴⁵ ‘eat’, ŋɨ³³ ‘drink’ are not derived from Proto-Ngwi *(k)-cit^L ‘goat’, *dza² ‘eat’, and *m-daŋ¹ ‘drink’.

References

^ Azha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ The representative dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Luojiayi 倮家邑, Binglie Township 秉烈乡, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

[e18-1] Azha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] The representative dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Luojiayi 倮家邑, Binglie Township 秉烈乡, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

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