A'ou language
A'ou (阿欧方言) or Red Gelao (红仡佬语) is an endangered Gelao language spoken by fewer than 100 people in Guizhou, China.[2] Only the Hongfeng (红丰) and Bigong (比贡) dialects are still spoken, each with only a few dozen speakers.
| A'ou | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Region | Guizhou |
Native speakers | 50 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aou |
| Glottolog | aoua1234 |
Dialects
The main dialects of A'ou, which all have limited mutual intelligibility, are:
Only one elderly speaker of the Houzitian (猴子田) dialect was found in 2013, and it is likely now extinct.[6]
Mulao (木佬) is sometimes also included, in addition to Yi (羿), an extinct A'ou variety of Sichuan.[7]
A’ou Phonology[8]
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m̥,m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| b,p | t,d | k,g | q | ʔ | ||
| v | s,z | ɕ,ʑ | x,ɣ | χ | h | |
| j | w | |||||
| dz,ts | ||||||
| l | ||||||
| ɬ |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|
| i,y | u | |
| ɪ | ||
| e | o | |
| ə | ||
| ɛ | ||
| a |
References
- A'ou at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Li Jinfang [李锦芳]. 2006. Studies on endangered languages in the Southwest China [西南地区濒危语言调查研究]. Beijing: Minzu University [中央民族大学出版社].
- Zhou Guoyan 周国炎. 2004. Gelao zu mu yu sheng tai yan jiu 仡佬族母語生态硏究 (Studies on the linguistic ecology of the Gelao people). Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House 民族出版社.
- Li Xia; Li Jinfang; Luo Yongxian. 2014. A Grammar of Zoulei, Southwest China. Bern: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-0343-1344-5
- Ostapirat, Weera. 2000. "Proto-Kra." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 23 (1): 1-251.
- Hsiu, Andrew. 2017. Red Gelao (Houzitian) audio word list. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1122531
- Zhang Jimin 张済民. 1993. Gelao yu yan jiu 仡佬语研究 (A study of Gelao). Guiyang, China: Guizhou People's Press 贵州民族出版社.
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:A%27ou_lemmas
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