Qidi (; also called Qiedi 切弟) is a
Southern 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 rela ...
of
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...
, China. Qidi is spoken in
Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County
Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in southern Yunnan, China, bordering Laos and Vietnam to the south, making it the only county in the province to border more than ...
,
Mojiang Hani Autonomous County
Mojiang Hani Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in the south of Yunnan Province, China.
Administrative divisions
In the present, Mojiang Hani Autonomous County has 12 towns, 2 townships an ...
, 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.
Administrative divisions
In the present, Lüchun County has 4 towns and 5 tow ...
.
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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