Azha language
| Azha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
Native speakers | 53,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| 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)-citL ‘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.