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Gepo (Köpu; autonym: ko˧pʰo˥[2] or ko˥pʰu˨˩[3]) is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China spoken by 100,000 people. The speakers' autonym is kɔ˨˩, while the "-po" of "Gepo" means 'people'.[4] It is spoken in 6 villages of Fumin County, eastern Luquan County, and other adjacent counties to the northeast.

Gepo
Native toChina
EthnicityYi
Native speakers
100,000 (2007)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • (Tibeto-Burman)
    • Lolo–Burmese
      • Loloish
        • Nisoish
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
ygp  Gupo
yyz  Ayizi
Glottologgepo1234
ELPAyizi

Gao (2017)[5] classifies Geipo (autonym: ke˥pʰo˨˩) as a Central Ngwi language. In Wuding County, it is spoken by 250 people in Gubai Village, Shishan Township and by 30 people in Yaoying Village, Shishan Township in Micha-majority villages.


Distribution and varieties


Gupo 古泼 (autonym: ko˥pʰo˨˩) is spoken in Mile, Songming, Xundian, Zhanyi, Luoping, Shizong, Luxi, Shilin, Luliang, Yiliang, Fuyuan, Qiubei, Luquan, Huize, and Yiliang counties by about 100,000 speakers.[6] Gupo speakers are also referred as the White Yi 白彝, Gan Yi 甘彝, and Little White Yi 小白彝.[6]

The Ayizi 阿夷子 of Aimailong Village 爱买龙,[7] Shilin County refer to themselves as Ge, and may thus speak a language related to Gepo (Bradley 2007).[8] It is also spoken in Banqiao Township 板桥乡, and other parts of Beidacun 北大村乡.[9]

Epo 峨颇 (autonyms: ŋo˧phu˨˩, ŋo˧) is an Eastern Yi language variety spoken by about 8,000 people in the following villages of Longlin, Napo, and Xilin counties in western Guangxi.[10]

A similar dialect called Wopu 窝普 is reported in Xingyi, Guizhou and Luoping County, Yunnan.[11] The Luoping County Gazetteer (1995:601) reports that Wopu 窝普 (also called Large Black Yi 大黑彝) is spoken in:

Guopu 果铺 is reported in Weining County, Guizhou.[12]


References


  1. Gupo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Ayizi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Chen Shilin [陈士林], et al. 1985. Yiyu jianzhi [彝语简志], p.108. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社].
  3. Yunnan Province Ethnic Minority Languages Gazetteer (云南省志:少数民族语言文字志), p.30
  4. Bradley, David. 2005. "Sanie and language loss in China".International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 2005, Issue 173, Pp. 159–176.
  5. Gao, Katie B. 2017. Dynamics of Language Contact in China: Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Variation in Yunnan. PhD Dissertation: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
  6. Wang Chengyou [王成有]. 2003. Yiyu Fangyan Bijiao Yanjiu [彝语方言比较研究]. Chengdu: Sichuan People's Press [四川民族出版社]. ISBN 7540927658
  7. "石林彝族自治县石林镇小密枝村委会爱买龙自然村". Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  8. Bradley, David. 2007. "East and Southeast Asia."
  9. https://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/uploads/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/A/Ayizi.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. Li Shengfu 李生福. 2007. 彝语峨颇话概况. 《民族语文》2007年第6期.
  11. http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/W/Wopu.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  12. http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/G/Guopu.pdf [bare URL PDF]



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