Gepo language

Gepo
Native toChina
EthnicityYi
Native speakers
100,000 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
ygp – Gupo
yyz – Ayizi
Glottologgepo1234
ELPAyizi

Gepo (Köpu; autonym: ko³³pʰo⁵⁵[2] or ko⁵⁵pʰu²¹[3]) is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China spoken by 100,000 people. The speakers' autonym is kɔ²¹, 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.

(Gao 2017)[5] classifies Geipo (autonym: ke⁵⁵pʰo²¹) 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.

  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 Archived 2017-11-02 at the Wayback Machine. PhD Dissertation: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.