ISO 639-3 kaf | Native speakers 4,000 (1997) Glottolog kats1235 | |
Language family Sino-Tibetan(Tibeto-Burman)Lolo–BurmeseLoloishKazhuoishKatso | ||
Katso, a.k.a. Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ˥tso˧˩, kɑ˥tso˧˩; Chinese: 卡卓), is a Loloish language of Xingmeng Township (兴蒙乡), Tonghai County, Yunnan, China. The speakers are officially classified as ethnic Mongols, although they speak a Loloish language.
Katso speakers call themselves kʰɑ˥tso˧˩ (卡卓) or kɑ˥tso˧˩ (嘎卓) (Kazhuoyu Yanjiu).
Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Kazhuoish innovations.
References
Katso language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA