Azha language

Azha
Azha
Native to	China
Native speakers	53,000 (2007)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman 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[edit]

In Azha, the words for ‘goat’, ‘eat’, and ‘drink’ are innovative (Pelkey 2011:377). Luojiayi Azha^[2] /mɛ33 xɛ33/ ‘goat’, /la̠45/ ‘eat’, /ŋɨ33/ ‘drink’ are not derived from Proto-Ngwi *(k)-cit^L ‘goat’, *dza² ‘eat’, and *m-daŋ¹ ‘drink’.

References[edit]

^ 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.

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[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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