Ache Yi language
{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China}}
{{distinguish|Ache language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Ache
|altname=
|states=China
|ethnicity=Yi
|speakers=35,000
|date=2003
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=(Tibeto-Burman)
|fam3=Lolo–Burmese
|fam4=Loloish
|fam5=Nisoish
|fam6=Southeastern Loloish?
|fam7=
|iso3=yif
|glotto=ache1244
|glottorefname=Ache
}}
Ache ({{lang-zh|阿车}}) is a Loloish language spoken by the Yi people of south-central Yunnan, China. Ethnologue lists Azhe as an alternate name.
Demographics
Ache is spoken in Shuangbai County (pop. 23,000), Yimen County (pop. 11,100),{{Cite web |title=China |url=http://asiaharvest.org/index.php/people-group-profiles/china/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801062653/http://asiaharvest.org/index.php/people-group-profiles/china/ |archive-date=2013-08-01 |access-date=2013-07-19 |website=Asia Harvest}} Eshan County, and Lufeng County. Yunnan (1955) reports that their autonym in Xinping County is {{IPA|nei33 su33 pʰɯ21}}.{{Cite book |last=雲南省民族事務委員會研究室印 |url=http://www.doc88.com/p-97281176367.html |date=1955 |page=40 |language=zh |script-title=zh:雲南民族識別參考資料}}
Classification
Ethnologue classifies Ache as a Southeastern 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.
References
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- {{Cite thesis |last=Lama |first=Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan |title=Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation |date=2012 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Texas at Arlington |language=en |hdl=10106/11161 |hdl-access=free}}
- {{cite book |last=Pelkey |first=Jamin |date=2011 |title=Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton}}
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External links
- [http://globalrecordings.net/langcode/yif Audio sample of Ache from Global Recordings Network]
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Lolo-Burmese languages}}
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