Ache Yi language
Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China
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Demographics
Ache is spoken in Shuangbai County (pop. 23,000), Yimen County (pop. 11,100),[2] Eshan County, and Lufeng County. Yunnan (1955) reports that their autonym in Xinping County is nei33 su33 pʰɯ21.[3]
Classification
Ethnologue classifies Ache as a Southeastern Loloish language, and lists 35,000 speakers as of 2003. Ache has not been analyzed in classifications of Southeastern Loloish by Pelkey (2011) and Lama (2012), and hence remains unclassified within the Loloish branch.