| Choyo | |
|---|---|
| Queyu, Choyu | |
| Native to | China |
Native speakers | (7,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qvy |
| Glottolog | quey1238 |
| ELP | Queyu |
 | |
Queyu (Choyo, Choyu) is aQiangic language ofYajiang County andXinlong County,Sichuan. It is similar with and shares a name withZhaba, but the two languages are distinct from each other.
The four dialects of Choyo are those of:[2]
Suzuki & Wangmo (2016)[2] 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)[4] document the Queyu dialect spoken in Youlaxi Township 尤拉西乡,Xinlong County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan.
Lhagang Choyu (Chinese:Tagong Queyu 塔公却域語) is a Qiangic language similar to Choyu recently described by Suzuki & Wangmo (2018).[11] 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.
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | oral | pb | td | kg | ||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| Affricate | oral | tsdz | ʈʂɖʐ | tʃdʒ | ||
| aspirated | tsʰ | ʈʂʰ | tʃʰ | |||
| Fricative | oral | (f)v | sz | ʂʐ | ʃʒ | xɣ |
| aspirated | sʰ | ʂʰ | ʃʰ | |||
| Nasal | m̥m | n̥n | (ŋ̊)ŋ | |||
| Approximant | w | l̥l | r̥r | j | ||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid-high | eeˤ | ɘ | ooˤ |
| Mid-low | əəˤ | ||
| Low | ɛ | ɜɜˤ | aˤ |
Choyo also has threetones;[12] high, low, and rising.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
|  | |||
| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
| ||||
| East andSoutheast Asia |
| ||||
| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
| ||||
| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||