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Queyu (Choyo, Choyu) is a Qiangic language of Yajiang County and Xinlong County, Sichuan. It is similar with and shares a name with Zhaba, but the two languages are distinct from each other.

Dialects

The four dialects of Choyo are those of:

• Youlaxi Township 尤拉西乡, Xinlong County (Wang 1991; Huang ed. 1992) (which also has Western Horpa speakers)
• Rongba Township 绒坝乡, Litang County (Nishida 2008)
• Tuanjie Township 团结乡, Yajiang County (Lu 1985; Sun ed. 1991)
• Xiala Township 呷拉乡, Yajiang County (Prins & Nagano 2013) (which also has Dao speakers)

Suzuki & Wangmo (2016) consider the Lhagang Choyu language to be similar to but not part of Choyu proper, which consists of the four dialects listed above.

Huang & Dai (1992) document the Queyu dialect spoken in Youlaxi Township 尤拉西乡, Xinlong County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan.

Lhagang Choyu

Lhagang Choyu (Chinese: Tagong Queyu 塔公却域語) is a Qiangic language similar to Choyu recently described by Suzuki & Wangmo (2018). It is spoken in Tage Hamlet, southwestern Tagong Town, Kangding Municipality, Sichuan Province, China. It used to be spoken in Xiya 西雅 Hamlet of the same township (Suzuki & Wangmo 2016:63). Lhagang Choyu is an endangered language with about 100 speakers.

Phonology

• /f/ and /ŋ̊/ are only observed in one word each.

Choyo also has three tones; high, low, and rising.

References

1. Choyo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Suzuki, Hiroyuki and Sonam Wangmo. 2016. “Lhagang Choyu: A first look at its sociolinguistic status”. Studies in Asian Geolinguistics II: Rice. pp.60–69.
3. Wang, Tianxi. 1990. “Queyuyu ”. In Qingxia Dai, Bufan Huang, Ailan Fu, Rig-’dzin dBang-mo, and Juhuang Liu. Zangmianyu Shiwuzhong. pp.46–63. Beijing: Beijing Yanshan Chubanshe.
4. ^ Huang Bufan and Dai Qingxia, eds. 1992. Zangmianyuzu yuyan cihui 《藏緬語族語言詞匯》. Beijing: Central Institute of Minorities.
5. Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2018. The Ancestry of Horpa: Further Morphological Evidence. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
6. Nishida, Fuminobu. 2008. “Tyuyugo no on-in taikei ”. Tyuugoku Kenkyuu 16. pp.77–85.
7. Lu, Shaozun. 1985. “Zhabayu gaikuang ”. Minzu Yuwen 2. pp.67–76.
8. Sun Hongkai et al. 1991. Zangmianyu yuyin he cihui 藏缅语音和词汇 . Chinese Social Sciences Press.
9. Prins, Marielle and Yasuhiko Nagano (eds.). 2013. rGyalrongic Languages Database.
10. Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs / Yixiweisa Acuo . 2004. A study of Dao . Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House . ISBN 978-7-105-06016-0
11. Suzuki, Hiroyuki and Sonam Wangmo. 2018. “Lhagang Choyu wordlist with the Thamkhas dialect of Minyag Rabgang Khams (Lhagang, Khams Minyag)”. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics 12. pp.133–160.
12. ^ Zheng, Jingyao (2023). "A Phonological Study of Rongpa Choyul". Languages. 8 (2): 133. doi:10.3390/languages8020133.

• Nishida, Fuminobu. 2008. Chuyu-go no on'in taikei. Chūgoku kenkyū / Reitaku University 16. 77-85.

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