| Ache | |
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| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | 35,000 (2003)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yif |
| Glottolog | ache1244 |
Ache (Chinese:阿车) is aLoloish language spoken by theYi people of south-centralYunnan, China.Ethnologue listsAzhe as an alternate name.
Ache is spoken inShuangbai County (pop. 23,000),Yimen County (pop. 11,100),[2]Eshan County, andLufeng County. Yunnan (1955) reports that their autonym inXinping County isnei33su33pʰɯ21.[3]
Ethnologue classifies Ache as aSoutheastern Loloish language, and lists 35,000 speakers as of 2003. Ache has not been analyzed in classifications of Southeastern Loloish by Pelkey (2011) and Lama (2012), and hence remains unclassified within the Loloish branch.
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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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