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Native to: Northwestern Hunan Province, China
Ethnicity: 8.0 million Tujia (2000 census)
Native speakers: 70,000 (2005)
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
The Tujia language (Northern Tujia: Bifzivsar, IPA: [pi˧˥ tsi˥ sa˨˩]; Southern Tujia: Mongrzzirhof, IPA: [mõ˨˩ dzi˨˩ ho˧˥]; simplified Chinese: 土家语; traditional Chinese: 土家語; pinyin: Tǔjiāyǔ) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken natively by the Tujia people in Hunan Province, China. It is unclassified within the Sino-Tibetan language family, due to pervasive influence from neighboring languages. There are two mutually unintelligible variants, Northern and Southern. Both variants are tonal languages with the tone contours of /˥ ˥˧ ˧˥ ˨˩/ (55, 53, 35, 21). Northern Tujia has 21 initials, whereas Southern Tujia has 26 (with 5 additional voiced initials). As for the finals, Northern Tujia has 25 and Southern Tujia has 30, 12 of which are used exclusively in loanwords from Chinese. Its verbs make a distinction of active and passive voices. Its pronouns distinguish the singular and plural numbers along with the basic and possessive cases. As of 2005, the number of speakers was estimated at roughly 70,000 for Northern Tujia (of which about 100 are monolingual) and 1,500 for Southern Tujia, out of an ethnic population of 8 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tujia_language
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