| Your first name |
Qinglian |
| Your last name |
Zhao |
| E-mail: |
qinglian@hawaii.edu |
| Preferred name(s) of your language |
Naxi |
| Alternative names |
Moso, Mosi |
| Language classification |
Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Lolo-Burmese |
| Geographical areas where spoken |
China: Mainly in Lijiang City, Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, also in some counties in Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province and Tibet. |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers |
100,000 |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers |
total population is 308,839 (2000 census), but not all of them speak Naxi. |
| Other languages spoken in area/country |
Mandarin, Yunnan Hua |
| Official language(s) in your country |
Mandarin |
| Language(s) used at school as a child |
Mandarin |
| Language(s) used by teachers today |
Mandarin |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language |
Yes |
| If the answer to the above question is yes, please specify |
Some Tibetan, Yi, Lisu, Pumi, Bai aslo speak Naxi because they live in a same area. |
| Does your language have a widely accepted writing system? |
Yes |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? |
Dongba pictographic characters were used to write Dongba scriptures; alphabet system is used now. |
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| NUMBERS |
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| one |
ddee |
| two |
ni |
| three |
seeq |
| four |
lu |
| five |
wa |
| six |
cual |
| seven |
sher |
| eight |
hol |
| nine |
ggv |
| ten |
ceiq |
