Lizu language
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Lizu | |
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Native to | China |
Native speakers
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7,000 (2008)[1] |
Ersu Shaba script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | included in ers |
Glottolog | lizu1234 [2] |
Lizu (Chinese: 傈苏, 里汝, 吕苏; Western Ersu) is a Qiangic language spoken in western Sichuan, China. There are 4,000 speakers according to Sun (1982), and 7,000 speakers according to Chirkova (2008). Muli, where Lizu is spoken, is a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual county, and Lizu has been historically influenced by Mandarin Chinese.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Chirkova 2008
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lizu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0317
Bibliography[edit]
- Chirkova, Ekaterina (2008). "Essential characteristics of Lizu, a Qiangic language of Western Sichuan". HAL. CRLAO. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- Chirkova, Katia; Chen, Yiya (2013), "Lizu" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 75–86, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000242
- Yu, Dominic (2012). Proto-Ersuic (Ph.D.). Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics.
External links[edit]
- ELAR archive of Lizu language documentation materials
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