| Luoji | |
|---|---|
| Qixingmin | |
| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | Qixingmin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Luoji (autonym:luo31dʑi33)[1] is a moribundLoloish language ofWeining County,Guizhou, China that is spoken by theQixingmin people. There are a few semi-fluent elderly speakers in Shejie Village 蛇街村, Yangjie Town 羊街镇, Weining County, with no fluent speakers remaining.[1][2]
The Qixingmin speak a language closely related to the localYi language, which is intermediate between theWestern andEastern Yi dialects ofWeining County (Weining 1997:328).[3] Some vocabulary items differ, such as the word for 'chili pepper' (Chinese:辣椒), which is "zi 自" in the Western Yi dialect, "shapo 傻迫" in the Eastern Yi dialect, and "boji 薄几" in Qixingmin.[3]
However, the Qixingmin claim that they are distinct from theYi, and that their ancestors spoke a non-Yi language that had become extinct centuries ago.[1]
Qixingmin is geographically located between the Western Yi and Eastern Yi areas. These languages are spoken in:[3]
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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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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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||