Queyu (Choyo, Choyu) is a
Qiangic language of
Yajiang County and
Xinlong County,
Sichuan
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. It is similar with and shares a name with
Zhaba, but the two languages are distinct from each other.
Dialects
The four dialects of Choyo are those of:
[Suzuki, Hiroyuki and Sonam Wangmo. 2016. “Lhagang Choyu: A first look at its sociolinguistic status”]
''Studies in Asian Geolinguistics II: Rice''
pp.60–69.
*Youlaxi Township 尤拉西乡,
Xinlong County (Wang 1991; Huang ed. 1992)
(which also has Western
Horpa speakers
[Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2018. ]
The Ancestry of Horpa: Further Morphological Evidence
'. Taipei: Academia Sinica.)
*Rongba Township 绒坝乡,
Litang County
Litang County (; zh, s=理塘县) is southwest of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan, China, in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham. It contains 7 towns and a population of more than 60,000 in 2020. Due to its elevation and moun ...
(Nishida 2008)
*Tuanjie Township 团结乡,
Yajiang County (Lu 1985; Sun ed. 1991)
*Xiala Township 呷拉乡,
Yajiang County (Prins & Nagano 2013) (which also has
Dao
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speakers)
Suzuki & Wangmo (2016)
consider the Lhagang Choyu language to be similar to but not part of Choyu proper, which consists of the four dialects listed above.
Huang & Dai (1992)
[Huang Bufan and Dai Qingxia, eds. 1992]
Zangmianyuzu yuyan cihui
《藏緬語族語言詞匯》 Tibeto-Burman Lexicon Beijing: Central Institute of Minorities. document the Queyu dialect spoken in Youlaxi Township 尤拉西乡,
Xinlong County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan.
Lhagang Choyu
Lhagang Choyu () is a Qiangic language similar to Choyu recently described by Suzuki & Wangmo (2018).
[Suzuki, Hiroyuki and Sonam Wangmo. 2018. ]
Lhagang Choyu wordlist with the Thamkhas dialect of Minyag Rabgang Khams (Lhagang, Khams Minyag)
. ''Asian and African Languages and Linguistics'' 12. pp.133–160. It is spoken in Tage
habs-mkhasHamlet, southwestern Tagong
Ha-sgangTown,
Kangding
Kangding ( zh, c=康定), also known as Dartsedo (), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is on the bank of the Dadu River and has been considered the his ...
ar-mdoMunicipality,
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
Province, China. It used to be spoken in Xiya 西雅 Hamlet of the same township (Suzuki & Wangmo 2016:63). Lhagang Choyu is an endangered language with about 100 speakers.
Phonology
* /f/ and /ŋ̊/ are only observed in one word each.
Choyo also has three
tones;
[ high, low, and rising.
]
References
*Nishida, Fuminobu. 2008. ''Chuyu-go no on'in taikei''. Chūgoku kenkyū / Reitaku University 16. 77-85.
{{Languages of China
Qiangic languages
Languages of Sichuan