tojha
Wutunhua
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 脫家 (“Tuo family”). This family was among the Chinese garrisons settled in the region by the early Ming dynasty. The colonists have since assimilated into the local Mongolic culture, and the surname is no longer used.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
edittojha
- Baoan (a group of villages immediately downriver from sanggaixong (“Wutun country”), inhabited by a Tibetan Buddhist population speaking the Mongolic Bonan language)
References
edit- Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN