The Sound of the Naxi language (Numbers, Words & Sample Text)

Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let’s learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet. Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this. I hope you have a great day! Stay happy! Please support me on Patreon! Please support me on Ko-fi Special Thanks to the Corpus Collector of China Naxi (Naqxi geezheeq) Native to: China Region: Yunnan and Tibet Ethnicity: Nakhi, Mosuo Native speakers: 350,000 (2000 census – 2010) Language family: Sino-Tibetan is a Sino-Tibetan language or group of languages spoken by some 310,000 people most of whom live in or around Lijiang City Yulong Naxi Autonomous County (Yùlóng Nàxīzú Zìzhìxiàn, 玉龙纳西族自治县) of the province of Yunnan, China. Nakhi is also the ethnic group that speaks it, although in detail, officially defined ethnicity and linguistic reality do not coincide neatly: there are speakers of Naxi who are not registered as “Naxi“ and citizens who are officially “Naxi“ but do not speak it It is commonly proposed in Chinese scholarship that the Naic languages are Lolo-Burmese languages: for instance, Ziwo Lama (2012) classifies Naxi as part of a “Naxish“ branch of Loloish. However, as early as 1975, Sino-Tibetan linguist David Bradley pointed out that Naxi does not partake in the shared innovations that define Loloish. Thurgood and La Polla (2003) state that “The position of Naxi ... is still unclear despite much speculation“ and leave it unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. Guillaume Jacques & Alexis Michaud (2011) classify Naxi within the Naish lower-level subgroup of Sino-Tibetan; in turn, Naish is part of Naic, itself part of a proposed “Na-Qiangic“ branch. LINKS: If you are interested to see your native language/dialect to be featured here. Submit your recordings to crystalsky0124@. Looking forward to hearing from you!
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