| Choyo | |
| Nativename: | Queyu, Choyu |
| States: | China |
| Speakers: | 7,000 |
| Date: | 1995 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
| Fam3: | Qiangic |
| Fam4: | Zhaba–Queyu |
| Iso3: | qvy |
| Glotto: | quey1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Queyu |
Queyu (Choyo, Choyu) is a Qiangic language of Yajiang County and Xinlong County, Sichuan. It is similar with and shares a name with Zhaba, but the two languages are distinct from each other.
The four dialects of Choyo are those of:[1]
Suzuki & Wangmo (2016)[1] consider the Lhagang Choyu language to be similar to but not part of Choyu proper, which consists of the four dialects listed above.
Huang & Dai (1992)[9] document the Queyu dialect spoken in Youlaxi Township 尤拉西乡, Xinlong County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan.
Lhagang Choyu is a Qiangic language similar to Choyu recently described by Suzuki & Wangmo (2018).[10] It is spoken in Tage [Thabs-mkhas] Hamlet, southwestern Tagong [lHa-sgang] Town, Kangding [Dar-mdo] Municipality, Sichuan Province, China. It used to be spoken in Xiya 西雅 Hamlet of the same township (Suzuki & Wangmo 2016:63). Lhagang Choyu is an endangered language with about 100 speakers.
| Plosive | oral | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |||
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| aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Affricate | oral | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |||
| aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | oral | (pronounced as /link/) pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |
| aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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| Mid-high | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |
| Mid-low | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |
Choyo also has three tones; high, low, and rising.