Xiqi language explained

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

Xiqi (; autonym: pronounced as /ɕi33 tɕhi33 pho21/)[1] is an unclassified Loloish language of Huaning County, Yunnan, China. It is also called Siqipo 斯期颇 (pronounced as /sɿ55 tɕhi55 pho21/) in Mile County.[2]

Classification

Pelkey (2011:431)[3] suggests that the Xiqi, Ati, and Long languages of Huaning County may be Southeastern Loloish languages. Hsiu (2018) suggests a Northern Loloish affiliation.[4]

Distribution

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

Vocabulary

The Huaning County Ethnic Gazetteer (1992:72)[14] 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. Yunnan Province Ethnic Minority Languages Gazetteer (云南省志：少数民族语言文字志), p.30
  2. Long Luogui 龙倮贵. 2007. Honghe yizu zuyuan zucheng ji qi renkou fenbu 红河彝族族源族称及其人口分布 .
  3. Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. Dialectology As Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  4. Web site: Hsiu. Andrew. Nisoish. Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. 2018. 2023-03-09.
  5. Web site: 华宁县通红甸乡所梅早村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230184615/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249049. live.
  6. Web site: 华宁县通红甸乡大婆左村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230191525/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249046. live.
  7. Web site: 华宁县盘溪镇矣得村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230190526/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249043. live.
  8. Web site: 华宁县盘溪镇法高村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230200457/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249042. live.
  9. Web site: 华宁县盘溪镇龙潭营村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230190240/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249041. live.
  10. Web site: 华宁县宁州镇普茶寨村民委员会登楼山村. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230194940/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249194. live.
  11. Web site: 华宁县宁州镇普茶寨村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230193346/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=248996. live.
  12. Web site: 华宁县华溪镇独家村村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230193343/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=248976. live.
  13. Web site: 华宁县青龙镇山岐村民委员会. ynszxc.net. 2017-12-30. 2018-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181230181321/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=249012. live.
  14. 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.

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