This article is about a Qiangic language. For the Spanish footballer nicknamed "Xumi", see Jordi Xumetra.
Shixing
Shuhi
Native to
China
Native speakers
1,800 (2000)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Loloish or Qiangic (?)
Naic
Shixing
Language codes
ISO 639-3
sxg
Glottolog
shix1238
ELP
Shixing
Shixing, also rendered Shuhi, is a Qiangic language of Sichuan, China. Two-thirds of its speakers are monolingual.
Shixing is also known by its Tibetan name Xumi (旭米 Xùmǐ); it is spoken by about 1800 people living by the Shuiluo River 水洛 in Shuiluo Township 水洛乡, Mili Tibetan Autonomous County.[2]
Katia Chirkova reports two varieties.[3]
Upper Xumi (autonym: ʂuhĩ)
Lower Xumi (autonym: ʃʉhẽ)
^Shixing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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