| Language name: | NAXI |
| UPSID number: | 2525 |
| Alternate name(s): | NAKHI, NAHSI, MOSO |
| Classification: | Sino-Tibetan, Lolo-Burmese |
| This language has | 49 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.218018915 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t k ph th kh b d g mb nd Ng tDs t.s cC, tDsh t.sh cC,h dDz d.z djz, ndDz nd.z ndjz, f X v gF sD s. C, zD z. z, m n nj l i y E aa a_ "o u uu "@ "@. uuF |
| Comment: | Lijiang dialect. Naxi is spoken in Northwestern Yunnan, China, primarily around Lijiang. The fricative vowel contrasts with /u/; it has a bilabial trill allophone after bilabial consonants. High vowels /i,u,y/ occur before a number of non-high vowels; the 11 resulting sequences might be regarded as diphthongs. Naxi has 4 tones, high, mid, low rising, and low falling. Bradley (1975) suggests that the rising tone only occurs in loan vocabulary. |
| Source(s): | Bradley, D. 1975. Nahsi and Proto-Burmese-Lolo. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 2.1:93-150. Jiang, Zhu-yi. Naxiyu gaikuang (A Brief Description of the Naxi Language). Minzu Yuwen, 1980.3 (August), 59-73. |