Katso language
Katso, also known as Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ⁵⁵tso³¹, kɑ⁵⁵tso³¹; 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 | |
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| Kazhuo | |
| Native to | China |
Native speakers | (4,000 cited 1997)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kaf |
| Glottolog | kats1235 |
| ELP | |
Katso speakers call themselves kʰɑ⁵⁵tso³¹ (卡卓) or kɑ⁵⁵tso³¹ (嘎卓) (Kazhuoyu Yanjiu).
Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Kazhuoish innovations.
- *x- > s-
- *mr- > z-
References
- Katso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
Further reading
- Donlay, Chris. A Grammar of Khatso. De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. ISBN 978-31-105-7693-1
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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