Hsihsia, Tosu and Lolo-Burmese languages

京都: 京都大学音声科学研究. Studia phonologica (1976), 10: 1-15 p.We have so far treated the Hsihsia language as one rather isolated from LoloBurmese proper, of which Burmese and the Lolo languages are representative. However, some of its word forms have turned out to be fairly closely paralleled by the Tosu cognate forms. This may be considered due to the fact that Hsihsia and Tosu preserve the earlier linguistic strata welll. As one of the most striking features of these languages we may refer to the correspondence of Hsihsia / Tosu -i with the reconstructed TB * -a.