Katso language
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| Katso | |
|---|---|
| Kazhuo | |
| Native to | China |
|
Native speakers
|
unknown (4,000 cited 1997)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kaf |
| Glottolog | kats1235[3] |
Katso, AKA Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ˥tso˧˩, kɑ˥tso˧˩; 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 speakers call themselves kʰɑ˥tso˧˩ (卡卓) or kɑ˥tso˧˩ (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)
- ↑ Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
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