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Lahu, n.|lɑːˈhuː|
Also La Hu, La-hu. Pl. unchanged or Lahus.
[Lahu.]
a. (A member of) a minority people of the Lolo group in S.W. China, esp. Yunnan.
b. The Tibeto-Burman language of this people.
1900Geogr. Jrnl. XV. 503 The inhabitants of Nan Ma-chai are ‘La Hu’, a Lolo tribe known to the Chinese as the Lo Hei of Lo Hei-shan. They are akin to the Hsiang Tan, and are to be found spread over a wide area, from the Mekong to the Salwin. 1909H. R. Davies Yün-nan 307 In the south-west, between the Salween and the Mekong, are the La-hus, who with their cross-bows and poisoned arrows proved formidable foes to the Chinese troops. Ibid. 351 Amongst the Lo-lo I have classed the La-hu, the Li-so and the Wo-ni, all three of which can scarcely be considered as more than dialects of some original Lo-lo tongue. 1955Word XI. 103 Burmic Division... Lolo Branch... Southern Unit:... Lahu. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 195 When one translates from a highly inflected language, such as Greek, into a more or less isolating language, such as Chinese or Lahu, a gain in the number of words involved is inevitable. 1978Language LIV. 484 In Chapter 5, G discusses and illustrates complementation and relativization in several languages (Bambara, Japanese, Lahu, Navaho, Uto-Aztecan, and English). |