Azha language explained

Azha
States:	China
Speakers:	53,000
Date:	2007
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Lolo-Burmese
Fam4:	Loloish
Fam5:	Southeastern
Fam6:	Sani–Azha
Iso3:	aza
Glotto:	azha1235
Glottorefname:	Azha

Azha is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.

Innovations

In Azha, the words for ‘goat’, ‘eat’, and ‘drink’ are innovative (Pelkey 2011:377). Luojiayi Azha^[1] pronounced as //mɛ33 xɛ33// ‘goat’, pronounced as //la̠45// ‘eat’, pronounced as //ŋɨ33// ‘drink’ are not derived from Proto-Ngwi *(k)-cit^L ‘goat’, *dza² ‘eat’, and *m-daŋ¹ ‘drink’.

References

• Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Notes and References

1. The representative dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Luojiayi 倮家邑, Binglie Township 秉烈乡, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.