Axi language

Axi
Axipo
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	100,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Sani–Azha Axi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yix
Glottolog	axiy1235[2]

Axi (Chinese 阿细 Axi ; Ahi; autonym: ɑ˨˩ɕi˥pʰo˨˩) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China. The Axi are one of the main linguistic sub-branches of Yi, and the Axi tiaoyue is a dance of the Axi speaking Yi people accompanied by the sanhu.^[3]

References

1. Axi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Axi Yi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. 李勇翔 中国少数民族音乐 2006 "彝族三胡彝族三胡是彝族特有的弓弦乐器。云南彝族的两大支系"撒尼"与"阿细"人的民间乐舞"阿细跳月"常用此乐器演奏。"