Azha language

Azha
Native to	China
Native speakers	53,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Sani–Azha Azha; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aza
Glottolog	azha1235[2]

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^[3] 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)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Azha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ 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)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Azha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] 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.