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Zhaba, also known as Bazi, Bozi, Draba, nDrapa, Zaba, Zha (Chinese: 扎坝语 or 扎巴语), is a Qiangic language of Sichuan, China spoken by about 8,000 people in Daofu County and Yajiang County. The Zhaba, who are officially classified by the Chinese government as ethnic Tibetan people, refer to themselves as and to the Zhaba language as . Neighboring Khams Tibetan speakers refer to the Zhaba people as . Zhaba speakers live primarily in the Xianshui River 鲜水河 valley.
Descriptions of Zhaba include Huang (1991) and Gong (2007). Huang & Dai (1992) document the Queyu dialect spoken in Zhatuo Village 扎拖村, Zhatuo Township 扎拖乡, Daofu County, Sichuan.
Additionally, the following diphthongs and triphthongs have been observed: /ui/, /ue/, /uɛ/, /uɛ̃/, /yɛ/, /uɐ/, /ua/, /ei/, /ɛi/, /əu/, /ai/, /au/, /uei/, /iau/.
Ethnologue (21st edition) lists two dialects of Zhaba:
Drate (Northern nDrapa)
Drame (Southern nDrapa, Zhami)
Distribution
A total of 8,319 Zhaba people are distributed in the following townships of Zhaba District 扎坝区 of Daofu County (Upper Zha 上扎 area), and Zhamai District 扎麦区 of Yajiang County (Lower Zha 下扎 area) (Gong 2007:2-3). Zhaba people from the two districts speak the same mutually intelligible language.
Zhaba District 扎坝区, Daofu County (Upper Zha 上扎 area)
Yazhuo 亚卓乡 (Zhaba name: vʑa55 ʂtsʰu31): 1,501 Zhaba people
Hongding 红顶乡 (Zhaba name: ŋui31 dɪ55): 752 Zhaba people
Zhongni 仲尼乡 (Zhaba name: tʂyi55 ȵi55): 970 Zhaba people
Zhatuo 扎拖乡 (Zhaba name: ndʐa31 gʊ55): 1,114 Zhaba people
Xiatuo 下拖乡 (Zhaba name: ptse55 tʰʊ31): 899 Zhaba people
Waduo 瓦多乡 (Zhaba name: ve55 tʊ55): 1,536 Zhaba people
Murong 木绒乡 (Zhaba name: mə55 vzu31): 1,547 Zhaba people
References
Zhaba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Gong Qunhu . 2007. Zhabayu yanjiu . Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House .
Huang Bufan (黄布凡), 1991: 扎坝语 . In Dai Qingxia, Huang Bufan, Fu Ailan, Renzeng-Wangmu, and Liu Juhuang (戴庆厦、黄布凡、傅爱 兰、仁增旺姆、刘菊黄) Zangmianyu Shiwu-zhong (藏缅语十五种: Fifteen Tibeto-Burman languages). Beijing: Beijing Yanshan Chubanshe, pp. 64-97.
Huang Bufan and Dai Qingxia, eds. 1992. Zangmianyuzu yuyan cihui 《藏緬語族語言詞匯》. Beijing: Central Institute of Minorities.
^ Namkung, Ju (1996). Matisoff, James A. (ed.). "Phonological Inventories of Tibeto-Burman Languages" (PDF). Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Monograph Series (3). University of California, Berkeley.
Zhaba is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger