2013/04/01 by Katia Chirkova, Yiya Chen · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations #Multilingual Education and Policy #China #Geography #History #Linguistics #Humanities #Archaeology #Art #Philosophy
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0025100312000242
openalex publication_date 2013/04/01 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
The Lizu (or Lüzu) language (/ EP li - zu - hu / or / EP ly - zu - hu /) is spoken by approximately 7000 people who reside along the banks of the Yalong (雅 砻) or Nyag chu River in three counties in Sichuan Province (四 川 省) in the People's Republic of China: (i) Muli Tibetan Autonomous County 木 里 藏 族 自 治 县 (Written Tibetan, hereafter WT, smi li rang skyong rdzong ), (ii) Jiulong county (九 龙 县 brgyad zur ), (iii) Mianning county (冕 宁 县) (Wang 2010: 3). 1 Lizu is currently considered as the western dialect of the Ersu 尔 苏 language (Sun 1982, 1983), which is in turn classified as a member of the Qiangic subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman language family (for more details, see Bradley 1997: 36–37; Sun 2001; Chirkova 2012).