| Also Known As: Erhsu,Duoxu
Description:
Ersu (also called Duoxu or Erhsu) is a Qiangic language of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by about 9,000 people in China. There are three main dialects of Ersu, Eastern Ersu, Central Ersu, and Western Ersu but mutual intelligibility is fading. Some linguists speculate Menia is a dialect of Ersu. Older adults use the language in most situations but younger people also use Chinese or Yi. Ersu Shaba Picture Writing is the logogrammatic writing system of Ersu in which the color of the characters has an effect on the meaning. The system was inspired by Chinese writing and it was created in the 11th century.
Ersu is primarily a subject-object-verb language. It has three tones...... full article at Wikipedia |
