tojha

Wutunhua

Etymology

From 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

IPA^(key): [tʰoc͡çɑ]

Proper noun

tojha

Baoan (a group of villages immediately downriver from sanggaixong (“Wutun country”), inhabited by a Tibetan Buddhist population speaking the Mongolic Bonan language)

References

Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN