Ersuic languages

Short description: Qiangic language cluster of China

Ersu

Native to| China

Native speakers

| (20,000 cited 1982)e25

Language family

Sino-Tibetan

* Qiangic
* Ersu–Namuzi ?
* Ersu

Writing system

| Ersu Shaba script
Language codes
ISO 639-3| `ers`
Glottolog| `ersu1242`[1]

The Ersuic languages (Chinese: 尔苏, Ersu; also called Duoxu or Erhsu) are a Qiangic language cluster of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Ersu languages are spoken by about 20,000 people in China as reported by Sun (1982).[2] Muya (alternatively Menia or Menya) is reported to be related, but it is not known how it fits in.

Ersuic speakers live in the western part of China's Sichuan province (several counties within the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and the prefecture-level city of Ya'an).[2] Most of them are classified by the Chinese government as members of the Tibetan ethnic group,[3][2] although some also are registered as Han Chinese.[3] Older adults mostly use Ersu, but younger people also use Chinese or Yi.

The Ersu Shaba script of the shābā religious books is a pictographic system of proto-writing. The system, in which the color of the characters has an effect on the meaning, was inspired by Chinese writing and was created in the 11th century.

## Contents

* 1 Languages
* 2 Grammar
* 3 Further reading
* 4 References
* 5 Works cited
* 6 External links

## Languages

There are three Ersuic languages.[4]

* Ersu 尔苏 (Eastern Ersu) – 13,000 speakers[5]
* Lizu 傈苏, 里汝, 吕苏 (Western Ersu) – 4,000 speakers;[5] 7,000 speakers[6]
* Tosu 多续 (Central Ersu) – 3,000 speakers;[5] almost none remaining[6]

Yu (2012) classifies Ersu languages as follows, with defining innovations given in parentheses.

Proto-Ersuic

* Tosu
* Ersu (ja\- adjective prefix)
* Hanyuan 汉源
* Zeluo 则落 / Qingshui 清水 (*ui- > ri-, *tɕ- > ts-, etc.)
* Lizu (*j- > ɲ-, *Ke > Kɯ, *riu > ri)
* Mianning 冕宁 (alveopalatal split)
* Central (*st- > k-, *HC- > C-)
* Naiqu 乃渠
* Kala 卡拉 (from Chirkova (2008))
* Kala 卡拉 (from Huang & Renzeng (1991))

## Grammar

Ersu is a subject–object–verb language. It has three tones.

## Further reading

## References

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Ersuic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ersu1242.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ěrsūyǔ" (in zh). http://www.ethnic-languages.org.cn/ersuyu.htm.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `e25`
4. ↑ Yu (2012).
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sun (1982).
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chirkova (2008).

## Works cited

* Chirkova, Katia (2008), Essential Characteristics of Lizu, a Qiangic Language of Western Sichuan, Workshop on Tibeto-Burman Languages of Sichuan, November 21–24, 2008
* Huang, Bufan 黄布凡; Renzeng, Wangmu 仁增旺姆 (1991). "Lǚsūyǔ". in Dai, Qingxia 戴庆厦 (in zh). Zàng-Miǎnyǔ shíwǔ zhǒng. Beijing: Yanshan chubanshe. pp. 132–152.
* Sun, Hongkai 孙宏开 (1982). "Ěrsū (Duōxù) Huà jiǎnjiè" (in zh). Yǔyán yánjiù 3: 241–264.
* Yu, Dominic (2012). Proto-Ersuic (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Berkeley.

## External links

* ELAR archive of Ersu language documentation materials
* List of Proto-Ersuic reconstructions (Wiktionary)

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Na-Qiangic languages

Naic|

| Namuyi|

* Namuyi

|

Shixing|

* Shixing

Naish|

* Naxi
* Na
* Laze

Ersuic|

* Ersu
* Lizu
* Tosu

Qiangic|

| Qiang|

* Northern Qiang
* Southern Qiang

|

Gyalrongic|

| Gyalrong|

* Situ
* Japhug
* Tshobdun
* Zbu

|

Horpa|

* Horpa

Khroskyabs|

* Khroskyabs

Chamdo|

* Lamo
* Larong
* Drag-yab

Choyo|

* Choyo

Muya|

* Muya

Pumi|

* Pumi

Zhaba|

* Zhaba

Tangut|

* Tangut

Cross (†) and italics indicate extinct languages.

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