Kazhuo

Facts

  • Language: Kazhuo
  • Alternate names: 卡卓語
  • Language code: 1hl
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan; Lolo-Burmese (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: <6,341
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script:

More information:

    They are descendants of a Mongol army which probably settled about 700 years ago and married local Nisu women. There are no identfiable vestiges of Mongol in their speech.