Asuo language

Loloish language spoken in Yunnan, China
Asuo
Asong
Native toChina
RegionYunnan
EthnicityHani
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologason1245

Asuo (Chinese: 阿梭; also called Asong 阿松) is a Southern Loloish language of Yunnan, China. Asuo is spoken in Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Lüchun County, Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County, and Yuanyang County, Yunnan.

Lefèvre-Pontalis (1892)[1] reports the presence of Asong in Poufang, Lai Chau province, Vietnam, and provides a word list for Asong as well.

References

  1. ^ Lefèvre-Pontalis, Pierre. 1892. Notes sur quelques populations du nord de l'Indo-Chine [Notes on some populations of northern Indo-China]. Journal Asiatique 19, 8, 8. 237-269, 129-154, 291-303.
  • You Weiqiong [尤伟琼]. 2013. Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan [云南民族识别研究]. Beijing: Nationalities Press [民族出版社].
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