Lashi language explained
| Lashi |
| Nativename: | လရှီ / လချစ် Lacid |
| States: | Myanmar, China |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | (Tibeto-Burman) |
| Fam3: | Lolo–Burmese |
| Fam4: | Burmish |
| Fam5: | Maruic |
| Iso3: | lsi |
| Iso3comment: | (incl. Chashan) |
| Glotto: | lash1243 |
| Glottorefname: | Lashi |
Lashi (Burmese: လရှီ, endonym Lacid) is a Burmish language. Although the endonym Lashi is often used by Western researchers, the people refer to themselves and their language as Lacid. It is according to Nishi in the Maruic branch, which preserves the preglottalized initials of Proto-Burmish in the most phonotactic environments.[1]
Distribution
There are conflicting reports about the size of the Lashi population. Reports range from 30,000 to 60,000.[2] In China, Lashi (Leqi) speakers are distributed in Mangshi City (formerly Luxi County), Ruili City, Longchuan County, and Yingjiang County of western Yunnan Province (Dai 2007:5). Mangshi has the most Lashi speakers, who are distributed in the following townships.
- Manghai (မန်ဟိုင်, 芒海镇)
- Zhongshan (ကျုင်းရှန်မြို့, 中山乡)
- Dongshan (သုင်ရှန်မြို့, 东山乡)
- Santai (ဆန်ထိုင်မြို့, 三台乡, in Gonglin ကုင်လင် 拱岭寨 and Manggang မန်ကန်芒岗寨 villages)
Lashi (လရှီ) is also spoken in eastern Shan State, Burma. Lashi was originally spoken in the downstream area of the Ngochang Hka river valley, a tributary of the N’Mai Hka river, while Ngochang was originally spoken in the upstream area of the Ngochang Hka river valley.[3]
The Chashan language, which is closely related to Lashi, is spoken in nearby Pianma Township (片马镇), Lushui County.
Further reading
- Book: Dai . Qingxia 戴庆厦 . Lèqīyǔ yánjiū . Li . Jie 李洁 . 2007 . Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe . 9787811083262 . Beijing . zh . zh:勒期语研究 . Study of the Lashi language.
- Web site: Hill . Nathan . Cooper . Douglas . 2020 . A Machine Readable Collection of Lexical Data on the Burmish Languages . Data set . 10.5281/zenodo.3759030 . free.
- Book: Huang . Bufan 黃布凡 . 1992 . zh:藏緬語族語言詞匯 . Zàngmiǎnyǔzú yǔyán cíhuì . A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon . Beijing . Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe . zh.
- Book: Luce, G. H. . Phases of Pre-Pagán Burma: Languages and History . 1985 . Oxford University Press . Oxford.
- Luk . Hkaw . A Grammatical Sketch of Lacid . 2017 . MA . Payap University . https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184825/https://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Luk_Hkaw_Thesis2017.pdf . 2018-06-12.
- Mann . Noel Walter . A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto Northern Burmic . 1998 . MA . The University of Texas . en.
- . (unpublished manuscript cited by Mann 1998).
- Book: Yabu, Shirō 藪司郎 . Burma and Japan: Basic Studies on Their Cultural and Social Structure . 1987 . Toyota Foundation . Tokyo . 47–53 . The Lashi Language of Burma: A Brief Description . Yabu Shirō.
- Book: Yabu, Shirō 藪司郎 . Historical and Cultural Studies in Burma . 1988 . Institute of Asian Studies, Sophia University . Ishizawa . Yoshiaki . Tokyo . 65–132 . A Preliminary Report on the Study of the Maru, Lashi and Atsi Languages of Burma.
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Nishi . Yoshio . Four Papers on Burmese: Toward the History of Burmese (the Myanmar Language) . 1999 . Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa . 978-4-87297-744-8 . en.
- Robert Noftz (2017) A Literature Review on Segments in Lacid (Lashi)
- Sawada . Hideo . 2017 . Two Undescribed Dialects of Northern Burmish Sub-branch: Gyannoʔ and Thoʔlhang . Presented at ICSTLL 50, Beijing, China . en .
