Katso
Kazhuo
Native toChina
Native speakers
(4,000 cited 1997)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kaf
Glottologkats1235
ELP

Katso, also known as Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ⁵⁵tso³¹, kɑ⁵⁵tso³¹; 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 kʰɑ⁵⁵tso³¹ (卡卓) or kɑ⁵⁵tso³¹ (嘎卓) (Kazhuoyu Yanjiu).

Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Kazhuoish innovations.

References

  1. ^ Katso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington

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