Asuo language

{{Short description|Loloish language spoken in Yunnan, China}}

{{Infobox language

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|altname=Asong

|states=China

|region=Yunnan

|ethnicity=Hani

|speakers=?

|date=

|ref=

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=(Tibeto-Burman)

|fam3=Lolo–Burmese

|fam4=Loloish

|fam5=Hanoish

|fam6=Hani

|fam7=Hao-Bai

|iso3=none

|glotto=ason1245

|glottorefname=Asong

}}

Asuo ({{zh|阿梭}}; also called Asong 阿松) is a Southern Loloish language of Yunnan, China. Asuo is spoken in Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Lüchun County, Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County, and Yuanyang County, Yunnan.

Lefèvre-Pontalis (1892)Lefèvre-Pontalis, Pierre. 1892. Notes sur quelques populations du nord de l'Indo-Chine [Notes on some populations of northern Indo-China]. Journal Asiatique 19, 8, 8. 237-269, 129-154, 291-303. reports the presence of Asong in Poufang, Lai Chau province, Vietnam, and provides a word list for Asong as well.

Some Asuo (Azong) are classified as Yi people.