Ache Yi language

Ache
Ache
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	35,000 (2003)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Nisoish Southeastern Loloish? Ache; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yif
Glottolog	ache1244

Ache (Chinese: 阿车) is a Loloish language spoken by the Yi people of south-central Yunnan, China. Ethnologue lists Azhe as an alternate name.

Demographics

Ache is spoken in Shuangbai County (pop. 23,000), Yimen County (pop. 11,100),^[2] Eshan County, and Lufeng County. Yunnan (1955) reports that their autonym in Xinping County is nei33 su33 pʰɯ21.^[3]

Classification

Ethnologue classifies Ache as a Southeastern Loloish language, and lists 35,000 speakers as of 2003. Ache has not been analyzed in classifications of Southeastern Loloish by Pelkey (2011) and Lama (2012), and hence remains unclassified within the Loloish branch.

References

^ Ache at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "China". Asia Harvest. Archived from the original on 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2013-07-19.
^ 雲南省民族事務委員會研究室印 (1955). 雲南民族識別參考資料 (in Chinese). p. 40.

Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012). Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Arlington. hdl:10106/11161.
Pelkey, Jamin (2011). Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

External links

Audio sample of Ache from Global Recordings Network

[e18-1] Ache at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[AsiaHarvest-2] "China". Asia Harvest. Archived from the original on 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2013-07-19.

[Yunnan1955-3] 雲南省民族事務委員會研究室印 (1955). 雲南民族識別參考資料 (in Chinese). p. 40.

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