Dao language (China)
{{Short description|Chinese–Tibetan mixed language of Southwest China}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Dao
|nativename =
|states =China
|region = Yajiang County, Sichuan
|ethnicity =
|speakers = 2,685
|date =1995
|ref =Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs (2004:6)
|familycolor = Mixed
|family = mixed Mandarin–Tibetan
|iso3 = none
|glotto = daoh1239
|glottorefname= Daohua
}}
The Dao language or Daohua ({{zh|c=倒话|p=dàohuà|l=inverted language}}) is a Chinese–Tibetan mixed language or creolized language of Yajiang County, Sichuan, China. Word order is SOV as in Tibetan (Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs 2004:6), while the lexicon consists of words derived from both Chinese and Tibetan.
Distribution
Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs (2004:6) reports that Dao is spoken in the following townships of Yajiang County, Sichuan, China. Within these administrative townships, Dao is spoken in 8 villages, comprising a total of 504 households and 2,685 individuals as of 1995.
- Hekou town 河口镇 (including Mazishi village 麻子石村Representative dialect covered by Atshogs (2004))
- Bajiaolou township 八角楼乡
- Xiala township 呷拉乡
Choyo, a Qiangic language, is spoken just to the north of Dao, and is also spoken in Xiala township 呷拉乡.
See also
References
{{reflist}}
- Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs / Yixiweisa Acuo [意西微萨・阿错]. 2004. A study of Dao [倒话研究]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社]. {{ISBN|978-7-105-06016-0}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150703164910/http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Daohua.htm Dao numerals]
- [https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/daoh1239 Glottolog data for Dao]
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{{Languages of China}}
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