Katso language

Katso
Kazhuo
Native to	China
Native speakers	4,000 (1997)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Kazhuoish[2] Katso
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kaf
Glottolog	kats1235[3]

Katso, AKA Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ˥tso˧˩, kɑ˥tso˧˩; Chinese: 卡卓), is a Loloish language of Xingmeng Township (兴蒙乡), Tonghai County, Yunnan, China. The speakers are officially classified as ethnic Mongols, although they speak a Loloish language.

Katso speakers call themselves kʰɑ˥tso˧˩ (卡卓) or kɑ˥tso˧˩ (嘎卓) (Kazhuoyu Yanjiu).

Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Kazhuoish innovations.

• *x- > s-
• *mr- > z-

References

1. Katso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Katso". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.