Eka language

Eka
Native to China
Ethnicity Yi
Native speakers
3,000 (2010)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 (proposal rejected)
Glottolog ekaa1234[2]

Eka (autonym: o21 kha24; exonym: Menghua[1]) is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China. There are 3,000 speakers in Yijiacun, Heliu, Shuangjiang County, Lincang Prefecture. Eka speakers claim to have migrated from Weishan County about 300 years ago.

References

  1. 1 2 Yang, Cathryn. 2010. Lalo regional varieties: Phylogeny, dialectometry, and sociolinguistics. Melbourne: La Trobe University PhD dissertation.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eka". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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