What is Tujia nationality and what language does it speak?

Tujia people have their own language. Tujia language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. It is divided into two major dialect areas: North and South. The northern dialect areas include Yongshun County, Longshan County, Baojing County and Guzhang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, laifeng county County and Xuanen County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in Sichuan. Up to now, some Tujia people in the above areas still use their own language as a communication tool.

Chinese has been used in some Tujia areas, but there are still some remains of Tujia language in their lives. Judging from their remains, they also used the northern dialect of Tujia language in history. These areas are Dayong County, Sangzhi County and Huayuan County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Cili County and Shimen County in Changde Region, Enshi City, Jianshi County, Badong County, Xuanen County, Xianfeng County, lichuan county, laifeng county County, Hefeng County, Changyang County, Wufeng County, Xiushan County, Qianjiang County, Pengshui County and Shizhu County in Yichang City.

Huxi County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, is a typical representative of Tujia southern dialect, which is still used as a communication tool by people in this area. Tujia people in Jishou City, Fenghuang County, Tongren County, Songtao County, Yanhe County, Sinan County, Yinjiang County and Dejiang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture used southern dialects in history, but now they use Chinese. ? The general characteristics of Tujia vocabulary are: more words reflect economic life such as agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, and fewer words reflect modern science and technology, modern production, political life, cultural education, general and abstract concepts. The basic grammatical structure of Tujia language is subject-object predicate order. ?

Historically, Tujia ancestors created and used their own characters. After the Qin dynasty destroyed Bashu, the script of Tujia ancestors was abolished by unified script. Nowadays, Chinese is widely used in daily life.