Tags: Language.
The Lachi language (Chinese: Laji 拉基 Vietnamese: La Chí; autonym in China: li˧˥pu˦ljo˦; autonym in Vietnam: qu˧˨ te˦˥˧ where qu˧˨ means person) is a Kra language spoken in Yunnan China and in northern Vietnam. There were 9500 Lachi speakers in Vietnam as of 1990. Edmondson (2008) reports another 2500 in Maguan County Yunnan China for 1995 but Li Yunbing (2000) reports 60 speakers in Maguan out of an ethnic population of 1600.