Laze language

Laze, rendered in Chinese as Lare (拉热) and Shuitianhua (水田话), is a language of the Naish subbranch of the Naic group of languages, spoken in Muli County, western Sichuan, China.

Laze is spoken by less than 300 fluent speakers in Xiangjiao Township 项脚乡 within Muli County (Michaud & Jacques 2012).

Name

The name Laze (IPA: ) is likely to be a place name.

Further reading

Publications are available on:

• an outline of Laze phonology, lexicon and grammar
• Laze phonemes: vowels, consonants, syllable structure
• the historical phonology of Laze, Na and Naxi
• the Laze tone system

Recordings in Laze are available from the Pangloss Collection (an online archive of languages).

References