Azhe language

{{Short description|Loloish language of China}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Azhe

|nativename=

|pronunciation={{IPA|[a˨˩dʐɛ˨pʰo˨˩]}}

|states=China

|ethnicity=Yi

|speakers=ca. 54,000

|date=2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Lolo-Burmese

|fam3=Loloish

|fam4=Southeastern

|fam5=Sani–Azha

|iso3=yiz

|glotto=azhe1235

|glottorefname=Azhe}}

Azhe (Chinese: 阿哲; Azhepo; autonym: {{IPA|[a21 dʐɛ22 pʰo21]}}) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.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.