Login
Login

Axi language

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

{{Infobox language

|name=Axi

|nativename=Axipo

|states=China

|ethnicity=Yi

|speakers=100,000

|date=2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Lolo-Burmese

|fam4=Loloish

|fam5=Southeastern

|fam6=Sani–Azha

|iso3=yix

|glotto=axiy1235

|glottorefname=Axi Yi

}}

Axi (Chinese: 阿细 Axi; Ahi; autonym: {{IPA|ɑ21 ɕi55 pʰo21}}) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China. The Axi are one of the main linguistic sub-branches of Yi, and the Axi tiaoyue is a dance of the Axi speaking Yi people accompanied by the sanhu.李勇翔 中国少数民族音乐 2006 "彝族三胡彝族三胡是彝族特有的弓弦乐器。云南彝族的两大支系"撒尼"与"阿细"人的民间乐舞"阿细跳月"常用此乐器演奏。"

Axi is spoken in Mile, Shilin, Kunming, Luxi, and Huaning counties by about 110,000 speakers.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}}

Dialects

Wu (2014) divides Axi into three dialects and also provides word lists for each of the three dialects.{{cite book |last=Wu |first=Zili 武自立 |date=2014 |title=Axi Yiyu gaiyao 阿细彝语概要 |location=Kunming |publisher=Yunnan People's Publishing House 云南人民出版社 |oclc=1027705935}}

  • The Western dialect 西阿土语 (approximately 75,000 speakers) is spoken in Mile (in Xishan 西山, Dongshan 东山, Midong 弥东, Jiangbian 江边, Buqi 补七); Qiubei (some areas), Lunan, Luxi, Huaning counties, etc.
  • The Yanshan dialect 砚阿土语 (approximately 72,000 speakers) is spoken in Yanshan, Qiubei (some areas), Wenshan counties, etc.
  • The Kunming dialect 昆阿土语 (approximately 23,000 speakers) is spoken in Kunming (Xishan, in Shuangshao 双哨; Anning); Luquan, Wuding counties, etc.

Phonology

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+Axi consonantshttps://stedt.berkeley.edu/pubs_and_prods/STEDT_Monograph3_Phonological-Inv-TB.pdf Phonological inventories of Tibeto-Burman languages. Ju, Namkung, 1996, ISBN 0-944613-28-4, Page 6.

!colspan=2 rowspan=2|

!rowspan=2|Labial

!colspan=2|Alveolar

!rowspan=2|Alveolo-
palatal

!colspan=2|Retroflex

!rowspan=2|Velar

{{small|plain}}

!{{small|sibilant}}

!{{small|plain}}

!{{small|sibilant}}

colspan="2" |Nasal

|{{IPAlink|m}}

|{{IPAlink|n}}

|

|

|

|

|{{IPAlink|ŋ}}

rowspan="3" |Plosive/
Affricate

!voiceless

|{{IPAlink|p}}

|{{IPAlink|t}}

|{{IPAlink|t͡s}}

|{{IPAlink|t͡ɕ}}

|{{IPAlink|ʈ}}

|{{IPAlink|t͡ʂ}}

|{{IPAlink|k}}

aspirated

|{{IPAlink|pʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|tʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|t͡sʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|t͡ɕʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|ʈʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|t͡ʂʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|kʰ}}

voiced

|{{IPAlink|b}}

|{{IPAlink|d}}

|{{IPAlink|d͡z}}

|{{IPAlink|d͡ʑ}}

|{{IPAlink|ɖ}}

|{{IPAlink|d͡ʐ}}

|{{IPAlink|ɡ}}

rowspan="3" |Continuant

!voiceless

|{{IPAlink|f}}

|{{IPAlink|ɬ}}

|{{IPAlink|s}}

|{{IPAlink|ɕ}}

|

|{{IPAlink|ʂ}}

|{{IPAlink|x}}

voiced

|{{IPAlink|v}}

|{{IPAlink|l}}

|{{IPAlink|z}}

|{{IPAlink|ʑ}}

|

|{{IPAlink|ʐ}}

|{{IPAlink|ɣ}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+Axi vowels

! rowspan="2" |

! rowspan="2" |Front

! rowspan="2" |Central

! colspan="2" |Back

unrd.

!rnd.

Close

|{{IPAlink|i}}, {{IPAlink|ḭ}}

|

|{{IPAlink|ɯ}}, {{IPAlink|ɯ̰}}

|{{IPAlink|u}}, {{IPAlink|ṵ}}

Mid

|{{IPAlink|e}}, {{IPAlink|ḛ}}

|

|

|{{IPAlink|o}}, {{IPAlink|o̰}}

Open-mid

|{{IPAlink|ɛ}}, {{IPAlink|ɛ̰}}

|

|

|

Open

|

|{{IPAlink|a}}, {{IPAlink|a̰}}

|

|

Syllabic consonant

| colspan="4" |{{IPA link|ɹ̪̩}}, {{IPA link|ɹ̪̰̩}}

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Languages of China}}

{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}

{{Lolo-Burmese languages}}

{{authority control}}

Category:Loloish languages

Category:Languages of Yunnan