Laghuu language

Laghuu (Vietnamese: Xá Phó, Phù Lá Lão) is a Loloish language spoken in northwestern Vietnam.[2] In Nậm Sài, Sa Pa Town, the speakers' autonym is la21 ɣɯ44, while in Sơn La Province it is la21 ɔ44 (Edmondson 1999). The people are also called the Phù Lá Lão by the Vietnamese.

Not to be confused with Laghu, an extinct language of the Solomon Islands.
Laghuu
Native toVietnam
Native speakers
300 (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lgh
Glottologlagh1245
ELPLaghuu

Edmondson considers Laghuu to be related to but not part of the Yi language complex of China. Jamin Pelkey (2011) considers Laghuu to be a Southeastern Loloish language.

Distribution

Laghuu is spoken in the following locations by a total of about 1,000 people (Edmondson 1999 & 2002).

The Vietnam, Laghuu speakers are officially classified as part of the Phù Lá ethnic group. Some Laghuu are known as "Black Phu La," and others as "Flowery Phu La."

Phonology

Consonants

Laghuu has the following consonants.[3]

Labial Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Velar Glottal
central lateral central lateral
Nasal mnŋ
Plosive and
Affricate		 prenasalized ᵐbⁿdᵑɡᵑɡʟ̝
aspirated pʰtʰtʃʰkʰk𝼄ʰ
tenuis pttʃkk𝼄ʔ
voiced bdɡɡʟ̝
Fricative voiceless fsʃxh
voiced vzʒɣ
Approximant l

Vowels

Laghuu has the following vowels.[3]

front central back
unrounded rounded
High iɚɯu
Hi-mid əo
Lo-mid ɛɔ
Low a

Tones

Laghu has five tones:[3]

  • high /˥/ (/55/)
  • high-mid /˦/ (/44/)
  • low-mid /˧/ (/33/)
  • low-rising /˨˦/ (/24/)
  • low-falling /˨˩/ (/21/)

Notes
  1. Laghuu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  3. Edmondson, J. A., & Lama, Z. (1999). "Laghuu or Xá Phó, A New Language of the Yi Group," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 22(1):1-10.

References
  • Edmondson, Jerold A. (2002). "The Central and Southern Loloish Languages of Vietnam". Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics (2002), pp. 1–13.
  • Nguyễn Văn Huy (1975). "Bước đầu tim hiểu mới quan hệ tộc người giữa hai nhóm Phù Lá và Xá Phó". In, Ủy ban khoa học xã hội Việt Nam: Viện dân tộc học. Về vấn đề xác định thánh phần các dân tộc thiểu số ở miền bắc Việt Nam, 415-428. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội.
  • http://ling.uta.edu/jerry/vietTB1.pdf%5B%5D
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20100627045649/http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/tbv.pdf
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