Brassett Cecilia, Brassett Philip, Lu Meiyan. The Tujia language

Lincom Europa, 2006. — 218 p.Reviewed by Wolfgang Schulze, University of Munich.
Tujia is spoken by roughly one percent of the eight million ethnic Tujia people who live in the center of the Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou Provinces as well as in the Chongqing Municipality of Central China. The Tujia people are often associated with the ancient kingdom of the Ba people (600–316 BC). Tujia is the most northeasterly language in the Tibeto-Burman language family; however, the exact place of Tujia within this language family is a matter of dispute. Tujia language is the first comprehensive description of this highly endangered language, which will help to define more accurately the language’s place in the genetics of Tibeto-Burman.