Editing Tujia language (section)

==Classification==
Tujia is clearly a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language]], with a number of scholars consider the Tujia languages as belonging to a separate sub-branch of [[Tibeto-Burman languages]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Documentation of the Southern Tujia Language of China {{!}} Endangered Languages Archive |url=https://www.elararchive.org/dk0260/#:~:text=Taking%20different%20factors%20into%20account,therefore%20have%20great%20academic%20significance. |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=www.elararchive.org}}</ref> but its position within that family is unclear, due to massive borrowing from other Sino-Tibetan languages, in particular loanwords from Chinese.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bradley |first=David |title=Brill's Tibetan studies library. 2,6: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Leiden 2000 / ed. by Christopher I. Beckwith |date=2002 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-12424-0 |editor-last=Beckwith |editor-first=Christopher I. |series=Proceedings of the ... seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies |location=Leiden Köln |pages=73–112 |chapter=The Subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman}}</ref> Although it has been placed with other groups in the past, such as under [[Nuosu language]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=王 |first=静如 |title=关于湘西土家语言的初步意见 |publisher=[[Publishing House of Minority Nationalities]]|isbn=7-105-03141-7 |edition=王静如民族研究文集 |pages=283–331}}</ref> or belongs to the branch of [[Qiang language]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=天贞 |first=何 |date=2003 |title=Which Branch Does Tujia Language Belong to? |url=https://lib.cqvip.com/Qikan/Article/Detail?id=7319582&from=Qikan_Article_Detail |journal=Journal of South-Central Minzu University (Humanities and Social Sciences) |issue=1 |pages=88–97}}</ref> linguists now generally leave it unclassified.