Adu language explained

Adu
States:	China
Ethnicity:	Yi
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Lolo-Burmese
Fam3:	Loloish
Fam4:	Nisoish
Fam5:	Southeastern?
Fam6:	(unclassified)

Adu is an unclassified Loloish language of Huaning County, Yunnan, China.

Classification

Pelkey (2011:431)^[1] suggests that the neighboring Xiqi, Ati, and Long languages of Huaning County may be Southeastern Loloish languages. Hsiu (2018) also suggests a Southeastern Loloish affiliation.^[2]

Distribution

The Huaning County Gazetteer 华宁县志 (1994:514) lists the following locations of Adu.

• Qinglong Town 青龙镇: Songzichang 松子场,^[3] Xinzhai 新寨,^[4] Douju 斗居,^[5] Chengmendong 城门洞,^[6] Niuqiduo 牛期多^[7]
• Lufeng Township 禄丰乡: Gele 革勒^[8]

Vocabulary

The Huaning County Ethnic Gazetteer (1992:72)^[9] provides a short word list of Adu, Ati, Xiqi, Nong, and Azhe transcribed using Chinese characters, shown below. Pinyin transliterations have also been provided below.

English gloss	Chinese gloss	Adu (阿笃语)	Ati (阿梯语)	Xiqi (西期语)	Nong (弄语)	Azhe (阿哲语)
village	寨子
water	水
girl	小姑娘
boy	小伙子
corn	包谷
have	有
not	无

Notes and References

1. Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. Dialectology As Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2. Web site: Hsiu. Andrew. Nisoish. Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. 2018. 2023-03-09.
3. Web site: 华宁县青龙镇斗居村民委员会松子厂村. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230191527/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249289. dead.
4. Web site: 华宁县青龙镇斗居村民委员会新寨村. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230184218/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249288. dead.
5. Web site: 华宁县青龙镇斗居村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230200507/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249009. dead.
6. Web site: 华宁县青龙镇城门硐村民委员会城门硐村. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230184215/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249291. dead.
7. Web site: 华宁县青龙镇城门硐村民委员会牛期多村. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230185922/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249290. dead.
8. Web site: 华宁县青龙镇革勒村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230185906/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249021. dead.
9. Huaning County Ethnic Gazetteer Editorial Committee (ed). 1992. Huaning County Ethnic Gazetteer 华宁县民族志. Kunming: Yunnan People’s Press 云南民族出版社.