Laze, rendered in Chinese as Lare (拉热)
[Guo Dalie, and He Zhiwu. 1994. Naxizu Shi (A History of the Naxi People). Chongqing: Sichuan Minzu Chubanshe.] and Shuitianhua (水田话), is a language of the
Naish subbranch of the
Naic
Naic (), officially the Municipality of Naic (), is a municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 160,987 people.
Etymology
Naic, Cavite is one of the former barrios of Maragond ...
group of languages, spoken in
Muli County
Muli Tibetan Autonomous County ( zh, s=木里藏族自治县, p=Mùlǐ Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn; ''smi-li rang-skyong-rdzong''; Yi: ''mup li op zzup zyt jie jux dde xiep'') is in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Sichuan ...
, western
Sichuan
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,
China
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.
Laze is spoken by less than 300 fluent speakers in Xiangjiao
Township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
项脚乡 within
Muli County
Muli Tibetan Autonomous County ( zh, s=木里藏族自治县, p=Mùlǐ Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn; ''smi-li rang-skyong-rdzong''; Yi: ''mup li op zzup zyt jie jux dde xiep'') is in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Sichuan ...
(Michaud & Jacques 2012).
[Michaud, Alexis, and Guillaume Jacques. 2012. "The Phonology of Laze: Phonemic Analysis, Syllabic Inventory, and a Short Word List." ''Yuyanxue Luncong'' 语言学论丛 (45): 196–230.]
Name
The name ''Laze'' (IPA: ) is likely to be a place name.
Further reading
Publications are available on:
* an outline of Laze phonology, lexicon and grammar
* Laze phonemes: vowels, consonants, syllable structure
* the historical phonology of Laze, Na and Naxi
[Jacques, Guillaume, and Alexis Michaud. 2011.]
Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze
" ''Diachronica'' 28:468-498.
* the Laze tone system
Recordings in Laze are available from the
Pangloss Collection
The Pangloss Collection is a digital library whose objective is to store and facilitate access to audio recordings in endangered languages of the world. Developed by the LACITO centre of CNRS in Paris, the collection provides free online access ...
(an online archive of languages).
Laze recordings in the Pangloss Collection
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References
Qiangic languages
Languages of Sichuan
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