| Azha | |
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| Native to | China |
Native speakers | 53,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aza |
| Glottolog | azha1235 |
Azha (Chinese:阿扎语) is one of theLoloish languages spoken by theYi people ofChina.
Azha (autonym:a33tsa21 ora55tʂa33) is spoken in Ganhe Township ofYanshan County, Yunnan and Dongshan and Binglie Townships ofWenshan County. Pelkey (2011) identifies the Azha 阿扎 (exonym:Pula 朴喇) ofKaiyuan, Yunnan asPhowa speakers.
Azha is spoken by thePhula people, but it is not a Phula language and is aSani–Azha language, closely related toSani,Axi andAzhe.Samei ofKunming may be related. Speakers are classified asYi people by the Chinese Government.
In Azha, the words for ‘goat’, ‘eat’, and ‘drink’ are innovative (Pelkey 2011:377). Luojiayi Azha[2]/mɛ33xɛ33/ ‘goat’,/la̠45/ ‘eat’,/ŋɨ33/ ‘drink’ are not derived from Proto-Ngwi *(k)-citL ‘goat’, *dza² ‘eat’, and *m-daŋ¹ ‘drink’.
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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