Azhe language
| Azhe | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | ca. 54,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yiz |
| Glottolog | azhe1235 |
Azhe (Chinese 阿哲 Azhe; Azhepo; autonym: a˨˩dʐɛ˨pʰo˨˩) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.[2][3]
References
- ^ Azhe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Halina Wasilewska in ed. Nathan Hill Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV 2012 Page 449 "... the writing as the basis and which corresponds to the classification of the Yi languages, present day traditional Yi writing can be sub-divided into five main varieties (Huáng Jiànmíng 1993), i.e. the Nuosu, Nasu, Nisu, Sani and Azhe varieties."
- ^ 黄建明 Huáng Jiànmíng 彝族古籍文献概要 1993 Yizu guji wenxian gaiyao [Outline of classical literature of Yi nationality]. By Huang Jianming. Yunnan minzu chubanshe, 1993.