Lizu language

Lizu
Native to	China
Native speakers	7,000 (2008)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Qiangic Ersu Lizu
Writing system	Ersu Shaba script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	included in ers
Glottolog	lizu1234[2]

Monophthongs of Lizu, from Chirkova & Chen (2013:78)

Lizu (Chinese: 傈苏, 里汝, 吕苏; Western Ersu) is a Qiangic language spoken in western Sichuan, China. There are 4,000 speakers according Sun (1982), and 7,000 speakers according to Chirkova (2008). Muli, where Lizu is spoken, is a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual county, and Lizu has been historically influenced by Mandarin Chinese.^[3]

References

1. Chirkova 2008
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lizu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0317

Bibliography

• Chirkova, Ekaterina (2008). "Essential characteristics of Lizu, a Qiangic language of Western Sichuan". HAL. CRLAO. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
• Chirkova, Katia; Chen, Yiya (2013), "Lizu" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association 43 (1): 75–86, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000242
• Yu, Dominic (2012). Proto-Ersuic (Ph.D.). Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics.

External links

• ELAR archive of Lizu language documentation materials