Azhe (Chinese: 阿哲; Azhepo; autonym: ) is one of the
Loloish languages
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its relat ...
spoken by the
Yi people
The Yi or Nuosu people,; zh, c=彝族, p=Yízú, l=Yi ethnicity historically known as the Lolo,; vi, Lô Lô; th, โล-โล, Lo-Lo are an ethnic group
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with eac ...
of
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
[黄建明 Huáng Jiànmíng 彝族古籍文献概要 1993 Yizu guji wenxian gaiyao utline of classical literature of Yi nationality By Huang Jianming. Yunnan minzu chubanshe, 1993.]
Dialects
Wang Chengyou (王成有) (2003:210)
[Wang Chengyou 成有 2003. ''Yiyu Fangyan Bijiao Yanjiu'' 语方言比较研究 Chengdu: Sichuan People's Press 川民族出版社 ] lists 3 dialects of Azhe, which are all mutually intelligible.
*Wushan 五山土语 (in
Mile County
Mile (; ; Hani language: ; Yi: ) is a county-level city located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. It is named after the Maitreya Buddha, for which there was a temple located on a nearby mountain, making it the ...
弥勒县)
**Xunjian 巡检,
Mile County
Mile (; ; Hani language: ; Yi: ) is a county-level city located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. It is named after the Maitreya Buddha, for which there was a temple located on a nearby mountain, making it the ...
弥勒县
**Hongxi 虹溪,
Mile County
Mile (; ; Hani language: ; Yi: ) is a county-level city located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. It is named after the Maitreya Buddha, for which there was a temple located on a nearby mountain, making it the ...
弥勒县
**Panxi 盘溪,
Huaning County
Huaning County () is a county under the administration of Yuxi, in east-central Yunnan Province, China.
Administrative divisions
Huaning County has 1 subdistrict, 3 towns and 1 ethnic township.
;1 subdistrict
* Ningzhou ()
;3 towns
* Panxi ( ...
华宁县
*Jiangbian 江边土语 (in
Mile County
Mile (; ; Hani language: ; Yi: ) is a county-level city located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. It is named after the Maitreya Buddha, for which there was a temple located on a nearby mountain, making it the ...
弥勒县)
*Qujiang 曲江土语 (in
Jianshui County
Jianshui County (; Hani: ''Jeifsyu'') is a city in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan province, China. and remains an important transportation crossroad. Previously, it has been known as Lin'an () or Huili (); today, the name Lin'an Town is retained by J ...
建水县)
Azhe is spoken in Mile, Huaning, Kaiyuan, and Jianshui counties, with about 100,000 speakers.
References
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Loloish languages
Languages of China