Adu () is an unclassified
Loloish
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi (like the Yi people) and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of 50–100 Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of Southwestern China. They are most closely related to Burm ...
language of
Huaning County,
Yunnan
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
, China.
Classification
Pelkey (2011:431)
[Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. ''Dialectology As Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation''. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.] suggests that the neighboring
Xiqi,
Ati, and
Long
Long may refer to:
Measurement
* Long, characteristic of something of great duration
* Long, characteristic of something of great length
* Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate
* Longa (music), note value in early music mens ...
languages of
Huaning County may be
Southeastern Loloish languages. Hsiu (2018) also suggests a Southeastern Loloish affiliation.
Distribution
The ''Huaning County Gazetteer'' 华宁县志 (1994:514) lists the following locations of Adu.
*Qinglong Town 青龙镇: Songzichang 松子场,
Xinzhai 新寨,
Douju 斗居,
Chengmendong 城门洞,
Niuqiduo 牛期多
*Lufeng Township 禄丰乡: Gele 革勒
Vocabulary
The Huaning County Ethnic Gazetteer (1992:72)
[Huaning County Ethnic Gazetteer Editorial Committee (ed). 1992. Huaning County Ethnic Gazetteer 华宁县民族志. Kunming: Yunnan People’s Press 云南民族出版社.] provides a short word list of Adu, Ati, Xiqi, Nong, and Azhe transcribed using Chinese characters, shown below.
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...
transliterations have also been provided below.
References
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Loloish languages
Languages of Yunnan