Editing Tujia language (section)

{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Tujia
| states           = Northwestern [[Hunan|Hunan Province]], China; [[Laifeng County]], [[Hubei Province|Hubei]]
| ethnicity        = {{sigfig|8.03|2}} million [[Tujia people|Tujia]] (2000 census)<ref name=e18/>
| speakers         = {{sigfig|71,500|1}}
| date             = 2005
| ref              = e18
| familycolor      = Sino-Tibetan
| fam2             = (unclassified)
| lc1              = tji
| ld1              = Northern
| lc2              = tjs
| ld2              = Southern
| glotto           = tuji1244
| glottorefname    = Tujia
| notice           = IPA
| nativename       = {{lang|tji|Bifzixsar}}<br>{{lang|tjs|Mongrzzirhof}}{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|/pi35 ʦi55 sa21/}}<br>{{IPA|/mõ21 ʣi21 ho35/}}{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
}}

The '''Tujia language''' ({{Citation needed span|text=Northern Tujia: {{lang|tji|Bifzixsar}}, {{IPA|/pi35 ʦi55 sa21/}}; Southern Tujia: {{lang|tjs|Mongrzzirhof}}, {{IPA|/mõ21 ʣi21 ho35/}}|date=July 2024}}; {{lang-zh|s=土家语 |t=土家語 |p=Tǔjiāyǔ}}) is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] language spoken natively by the [[Tujia people]] in [[Hunan|Hunan Province]], China. It is unclassified within the [[Sino-Tibetan language family]], due to pervasive influence from neighboring languages. There are two mutually unintelligible variants, Northern and Southern. Both variants are [[tone (linguistics)|tonal languages]] with the [[tone contour]]s of {{IPA|/˥ ˥˧ ˧˥ ˨˩/}} (55, 53, 35, 21). Northern Tujia has 21 initials, whereas Southern Tujia has 26 (with 5 additional voiced initials). As for the finals, Northern Tujia has 25 and Southern Tujia has 30, 12 of which are used exclusively in loanwords from Chinese. Its verbs make a distinction of active and passive voices. Its pronouns distinguish the singular and plural numbers along with the basic and [[possessive|possessive cases]]. As of 2005, the number of speakers was estimated at 70,000 for Northern Tujia (of which about 100 are monolingual)<ref name=tji>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tji Tujia, Northern]</ref> and 1,500 for Southern Tujia,<ref name=tjs>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tjs Tujia, Southern]</ref> out of an ethnic population of 8 million.<ref name=tji/><ref name=tjs/>