Qidi (; also called Qiedi 切弟) is a
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Loloish language
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its rel ...
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Yunnan
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, China. Qidi is spoken in
Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County
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Mojiang Hani Autonomous County
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In the present, Mojiang Hani Autonomous County has 12 towns, 2 townships and ...
, and
Lüchun County
Lüchun County () is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the south of Yunnan province, China, bordering Vietnam's Lai Châu Province to the south.
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In Mojiang County, Qiedi is spoken by a total of 1,497 people in Baliu Township 坝溜乡 (Yang & Zhang 2010:9).
Vocabulary
Hu & Dai (1964:80) cite the following forms for Qidi (七第). Gloss translations are from Wheatley (1982:13).
[Wheatley, Julian K. 1982. "Comments On the 'Hani' Dialects of Loloish." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 7 , no. 1: 1-38. ]
*' 'eat' (吃)
*' 'hit, beat' (打)
*' 'foam, soak' (泡沫)
*' 'live, exist' (活)
References
*Yang Hong
洪 Zhang Hong
红 2010. ''Demographics and current situations of Hani subgroups in Mojiang County''
江哈尼族自治县哈尼支系与人口现状调查研究 Journal of Honghe University
河学院学报 Vol. 8, No. 3. Jun. 2010.
*You Weiqiong
伟琼 2013. ''Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan''
南民族识别研究 Beijing: Nationalities Press
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Southern Loloish languages
Languages of Yunnan
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