Qidi language explained

Qidi
Also Known As:	Qiedi
States:	China
Region:	Yunnan
Ethnicity:	Hani
Speakers:	?
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	(Tibeto-Burman)
Fam3:	Lolo–Burmese
Fam4:	Loloish
Fam5:	Southern
Fam6:	Hani
Iso3:	none
Glotto:	none

Qidi (; also called Qiedi 切弟) is a Southern Loloish language of Yunnan, China. Qidi is spoken in Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Mojiang Hani Autonomous County, and Lüchun County.

In Mojiang County, Qiedi is spoken by a total of 1,497 people in Baliu Township 坝溜乡 (Yang & Zhang 2010:9).

Vocabulary

Hu & Dai (1964:80)^[1] cite the following forms for Qidi (七第). Gloss translations are from Wheatley (1982:13).^[2]

pronounced as /tsa³¹/ 'eat' (吃)
pronounced as /ti³¹/ 'hit, beat' (打)
pronounced as /dɯ̠³³/ 'foam, soak' (泡沫)
pronounced as /de̠³³/ 'live, exist' (活)

References

Yang Hong [杨洪], Zhang Hong [张红]. 2010. Demographics and current situations of Hani subgroups in Mojiang County [墨江哈尼族自治县哈尼支系与人口现状调查研究]. Journal of Honghe University [红河学院学报]. Vol. 8, No. 3. Jun. 2010.
You Weiqiong [尤伟琼]. 2013. Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan [云南民族识别研究]. Beijing: Nationalities Press [民族出版社].

Notes and References

Hu Dan [胡坦] & Dai Qingxia [戴庆厦]. 1964. Haniyu yuanyin de songjin 哈尼语元音的松紧. In Zhongguo Yuwen 《中国语文》 1964:1, pp.76-89.
Wheatley, Julian K. 1982. "Comments On the 'Hani' Dialects of Loloish." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 7, no. 1: 1-38.