Katso, also known as Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ˥tso˧˩, kɑ˥tso˧˩; Chinese: 卡卓), is a Loloish language of Xingmeng Township (兴蒙乡), Tonghai County, Yunnan, China. The speakers are officially classified as ethnic Mongols, although they speak a Loloish language.
Katso speakers call themselves kʰɑ˥tso˧˩ (卡卓) or kɑ˥tso˧˩ (嘎卓) (Kazhuoyu Yanjiu).
Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Kazhuoish innovations.
*x- > s-
*mr- > z-
References[]
^Katso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
Further reading[]
Donlay, Chris. A Grammar of Khatso. De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. ISBN978-31-105-7693-1