Laghuu ( vi, Xá Phó, Phù Lá Lão) is a

Loloish language 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 rela ...

spoken in northwestern

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.Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World''. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. In Nậm Sài, Sa Pa Town, the speakers' autonym is ', while in Sơn La Province it is ' (Edmondson 1999). The people are also called the by the Vietnamese. Edmondson considers Laghuu to be related to but not part of the Yi language complex of China. Jamin Pelkey (2011) considers Laghuu to be a

Southeastern Loloish The Southeastern Loloish languages, also known as Southeastern Ngwi, are a branch of the Loloish languages. In Lama's (2012) classification, it is called ''Axi-Puoid'', which forms the Nisoish branch together with the ''Nisoid'' (''Nisu–Lope'' ...

language.

Distribution

Laghuu is spoken in the following locations by a total of about 1,000 people (Edmondson 1999 & 2002). * Lào Cai Province ** Văn Bàn District ** Bảo Thắng District ** Bát Xát District ***A Lù ** Sa Pa Town ***Nậm Sài ** Cam Đường (near Lào Cai city) * Yên Bái Province ** Văn Yên * Sơn La Province ** Thuần Giáo The Vietnam, Laghuu speakers are officially classified as part of the Phù Lá ethnic group. Some Laghuu are known as "Black Phu La," and others as "Flowery Phu La."

Phonology

Consonants

Laghuu has the following consonants.Edmondson & Ziwo 1999.

Vowels

Laghuu has the following vowels.

Tones

Laghu has five tones: * high * high-mid * low-mid * low-rising * low-falling

Notes

References

*Edmondson, J. A., & Ziwo, L. (1999). "Laghuu or Xá Phó, A New Language of the Yi Group," ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 22/1:1-10. *Edmondson, Jerold A. (2002). "The Central and Southern Loloish Languages of Vietnam". ''Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics'' (2002), pp. 1–13. *Nguyễn Văn Huy (1975). "Bước đầu tim hiểu mới quan hệ tộc người giữa hai nhóm Phù Lá và Xá Phó". In, Ủy ban khoa học xã hội Việt Nam: Viện dân tộc học. ''Về vấn đề xác định thánh phần các dân tộc thiểu số ở miền bắc Việt Nam'', 415-428. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội. *http://ling.uta.edu/jerry/vietTB1.pdf *https://web.archive.org/web/20100627045649/http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/tbv.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Laghuu language Loloish languages Languages of Vietnam