Luoji | |
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Qixingmin | |
Native to | China |
Ethnicity | Qixingmin |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
Luoji ( autonym: luo31 dʑi33) [1] is a moribund Loloish language of Weining County, Guizhou, China that is spoken by the Qixingmin people. There are a few semi-fluent elderly speakers in Shejie Village 蛇街村, Yangjie Town 羊街镇, Weining County, with no fluent speakers remaining. [1] [2]
The Qixingmin speak a language closely related to the local Yi language, which is intermediate between the Western and Eastern Yi dialects of Weining County (Weining 1997:328). [3] Some vocabulary items differ, such as the word for 'chili pepper' ( Chinese: 辣椒), which is "zi 自" in the Western Yi dialect, "shapo 傻迫" in the Eastern Yi dialect, and "boji 薄几" in Qixingmin. [3]
However, the Qixingmin claim that they are distinct from the Yi, and that their ancestors spoke a non-Yi language that had become extinct centuries ago. [1]
Qixingmin is geographically located between the Western Yi and Eastern Yi areas. These languages are spoken in: [3]