Qidi (; also called Qiedi 切弟) is a Southern

Loloish language 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 Bur ...

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, China. Qidi is spoken in

Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County (; Hani language, Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in southern Yunnan, China, bordering Laos to the south and Vietnam to the southeast. It is one of the two counties in ...

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, 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. Geography Lüchun is located in southwestern Honghe Prefecture in southeastern ...

. 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 ��族出版社 Southern Loloish languages Languages of Yunnan {{st-lang-stub