Azhe language

Azhe
Azhe
Pronunciation	[a˨˩dʐɛ˨pʰo˨˩]
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	ca. 54,000 (2007)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Sani–Azha Azhe; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yiz
Glottolog	azhe1235

Azhe (Chinese: 阿哲; Azhepo; autonym: [a21 dʐɛ22 pʰo21]) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.^[2]^[3]

Dialects

Wang Chengyou (王成有) (2003:210)^[4] lists 3 dialects of Azhe, which are all mutually intelligible.

Wushan 五山土语 (in Mile County 弥勒县)
- Xunjian 巡检, Mile County 弥勒县
- Hongxi 虹溪, Mile County 弥勒县
- Panxi 盘溪, Huaning County 华宁县
Jiangbian 江边土语 (in Mile County 弥勒县)
Qujiang 曲江土语 (in Jianshui County 建水县)

Azhe is spoken in Mile, Huaning, Kaiyuan, and Jianshui counties, with about 100,000 speakers.

^ Azhe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Halina Wasilewska in ed. Nathan Hill Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV 2012 Page 449 "... the writing as the basis and which corresponds to the classification of the Yi languages, present day traditional Yi writing can be sub-divided into five main varieties (Huáng Jiànmíng 1993), i.e. the Nuosu, Nasu, Nisu, Sani and Azhe varieties."
^ 黄建明 Huáng Jiànmíng 彝族古籍文献概要 1993 Yizu guji wenxian gaiyao [Outline of classical literature of Yi nationality]. By Huang Jianming. Yunnan minzu chubanshe, 1993.
^ Wang Chengyou [王成有]. 2003. Yiyu Fangyan Bijiao Yanjiu [彝语方言比较研究]. Chengdu: Sichuan People's Press [四川民族出版社]. ISBN 7540927658