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- Title
Ersu.
- Authors
Chirkova, Katia; Wang, Dehe; Chen, Yiya; Amelot, Angélique; Kocjančič Antolík, Tanja
- Abstract
The Ersu language (/-xò/, 尔苏语ěrsūyǔ, ISO-639 code ers) is spoken by approximately 16,800 people who reside in five counties in Sichuan Province (四川省) in the People's Republic of China: (i) Ganluo (甘洛县), and (ii) Yuexi (越西县) counties of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture (凉山彝族自治州), (iii) Shimian (石棉县) and (iv) Hanyuan (汉源县) counties of Ya’an Municipality (雅安市), and (iv) Jiulong (九龙县, Written Tibetan, hereafter WT brgyad zur) county of Ganzi (甘孜, WT dkar mdzes) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Ersu has two closely related sister languages: Lizu (/li55-zu55-hũ55/ or /ly55-zu55-hũ55/, 里汝语lǐrǔyǔ or 栗苏语lìsūyǔ) and Duoxu (/do33-ɕu33-na31/, 多续语duōxùyǔ or 多须语duōxūyǔ). Lizu is spoken in the neighbouring counties of (i) Muli Tibetan Autonomous County (木里藏族自治县, WT smi li rang skyong rdzong), (ii) Mianning (冕宁县), and (iii) Jiulong; whereas Duoxu is spoken in the county of Mianning, all in Sichuan province (see the map in Figure 1).
- Subjects
CHINESE language; SPOKEN Chinese; CHINESE writing; ORAL communication education; LANGUAGES in China; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0025-1003
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0025100314000437