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The Tujia language is a language spoken natively by the Tujia ethnicity in south-central China. It is unclassified within
the Tibeto-Burman language family, due to pervasive influence from neighboring languages. There are two dialects, one Northern
and one Southern. Both dialects are tonal languages with the tone contours of ˥ ˥˧ ˧˥ ˨˩. The Northern dialect has 21 initials,
while the Southern dialect has 26 (with 5 additional aspirated initials). As for the finals, the Northern dialect has 25 and
the Southern 30, 12 of which are used exclusively in loan words from the Chinese language. Its verbs make a distinction of
active and passive voices; Its pronouns distinguish the singular and plural numbers along with the basic and possessive cases.
As of 2005, the number of speakers was estimated for roughly 70,000 for the northern dialect (of which merely ca. 100 are
monolingual), and 1,500 for the southern dialect, out of an ethnic population of 8 million. |
Names (more)[en] Northern Tujia |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : tjiLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tjihttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:tji More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: tjiFreebase ISO 639-3 : tji GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |