Lizu language
{{Short description|Qiangic language spoken in China}}
{{Hatnote|Not to be confused with Lisu language or with Lizu, the Li people of Hainan.}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Lizu
|pronunciation=
|states=China
|speakers=7,000
|date=2008
|ref=Chirkova 2008
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=Qiangic
|fam3=Ersuic
|script=Ersu Shaba script
|iso3=none
|glotto=lizu1234
|glottorefname=Lizu
}}
Image:Lizu monophthongs chart.svgs of Lizu, from {{Harvcoltxt|Chirkova|Chen|2013|p=78}}]]
Lizu ({{zh|傈苏, 里汝, 吕苏}}; Western Ersu) is a Qiangic language spoken in Western Sichuan, China. There are 4,000 speakers according to Sun (1982) and 7,000 speakers according to Chirkova (2008). Muli, where Lizu is spoken, is a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual county and Lizu has been historically influenced by Mandarin Chinese.{{Cite web|url=http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0317|title = Lizu-chirkova-0317 | Endangered Languages Archive}}
Varieties
Yu (2009: 2) lists the following varieties of Lizu:
- Mianning Lizu: spoken in Lagusa 拉姑萨 Village (Lizu name `wontʂʰɨ `lombɑ), He’ai (“Hoŋai”) 和爱 Township, Mianning County 冕宁 , Liangshan 凉山 Prefecture. Documented by Yu (2012).
- Kala Lizu: spoken in Kala 卡拉 Township, Muli County 木里 , Liangshan Prefecture. Documented by Chirkova (2008); Huáng and Rénzēng (1991); and Dài and Huáng (1992).
- Naiqu Lizu: spoken in Naiqu 乃渠 Village, Naiqu Township, Jiulong County 九龙 , Garzê (Gānzī 甘孜) Prefecture. Documented by Ikeda (2009).
References
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- {{Cite book |title=Zàng-Miǎn yǔzú yǔyán cíhuì |date=1992 |publisher=Zhongyang minzu xueyuan chubanshe |editor-last=Dai |editor-first=Qingxia 戴庆厦 |location=Beijing |language=zh |script-title=zh:藏缅语族语言词汇 |trans-title=A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon |editor-last2=Huang |editor-first2=Bufan 黄布凡}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Huang |first1=Bufan 黄布凡 |title=Zàng-Miǎnyǔ shíwǔ zhǒng |last2=Renzeng |first2=Wangmu 仁增旺姆 |date=1991 |publisher=Beijing yanshan chubanshe |editor-last=Dai |editor-first=Qingxia 戴庆厦 |location=Beijing |pages=132–152 |language=zh |script-title=zh:藏缅语十五种 |trans-title=Fifteen Tibeto-Burman languages |chapter=Lǚsūyǔ |script-chapter=zh:吕苏语 |trans-chapter=The Lusu Language |display-editors=etal}}
- {{Cite web |last=Ikeda |first=Takumi |date=2009 |title=200 Basic Words of the Lyuzu Language (Naiqu Dialect) |url=https://www.academia.edu/34464774 |language=en |via=Academia.edu}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Ikeda |first=Takumi 池田巧 |date=2010 |script-title=ja:西暦1853年に記録されたリュズ語の語彙 |trans-title=A Study on the Lyuzu Vocabulary Recorded in 1853 |journal=Toho Gakuho |language=ja |volume=85 |pages=672–653 |doi=10.14989/131769 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free |hdl=2433/131769 |script-journal=ja:東方學報}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Ikeda |first=Takumi 池田巧 |date=2019 |script-title=ja:大谷大學所藏本<<呂蘇譯語>>について |trans-title=A Philological Report on Two Versions of the Lyuzu yiyu [Lyuzu-Chinese Vocabulary] |journal=Toho Gakuho |language=ja |volume=94 |pages=436–424 |doi=10.14989/250687 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free |hdl=2433/250687 |script-journal=ja:東方學報}}
- {{Cite web |last=Chirkova |first=Ekaterina |year=2008 |title=Essential Characteristics of Lizu, a Qiangic Language of Western Sichuan |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00358909/document |access-date=27 October 2015 |website=HAL |publisher=CRLAO |language=en |ref=Workshop on Tibeto-Burman Languages of Sichuan November 21–24, 2008 Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Chirkova |first1=Katia |last2=Chen |first2=Yiya |date=2013 |title=Lizu |journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association |language=en |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=75–86 |doi=10.1017/S0025100312000242 |doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite thesis |last=Yu |first=Dominic |title=Proto-Ersuic |date=2012 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r87b3b8}}
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External links
- ELAR archive of [http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0317 Lizu language documentation materials]
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Na-Qiangic languages}}
{{Languages of China}}
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