| Axi | |
| Nativename: | Axipo |
| States: | China |
| Ethnicity: | Yi |
| Speakers: | 100,000 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
| Fam3: | Lolo-Burmese |
| Fam4: | Loloish |
| Fam5: | Southeastern |
| Fam6: | Sani–Azha |
| Iso3: | yix |
| Glotto: | axiy1235 |
| Glottorefname: | Axi Yi |
Axi (Chinese: 阿细 Axi; Ahi; autonym: pronounced as /ɑ21 ɕi55 pʰo21/) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China. The Axi are one of the main linguistic sub-branches of Yi, and the Axi tiaoyue is a dance of the Axi speaking Yi people accompanied by the sanhu.[1]
Axi is spoken in Mile, Shilin, Kunming, Luxi, and Huaning counties by about 110,000 speakers.[2]
Wu (2014) divides Axi into three dialects and also provides word lists for each of the three dialects.[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Retroflex | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ |
| aspirated | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Continuant | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrd. | rnd. | ||||
| Close | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Open-mid | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Syllabic consonant | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | ||||