西拉语(也称西达语[3])是一种在老挝和越南由约2,000人使用的彝语(Bradley 1997)。西拉族在越南被承认为一个单独的民族。
据Edmondson(2002),越南约有700名西拉族人生活在下列3个村庄。
据老年西拉人,7个西拉家族在175年前从老挝丰沙里省芒坞和芒叶迁来。他们最初抵达一处叫芒松的地方,到现居地前又经历了数次搬迁。
在老挝,西拉语分布在:[4]
- 丰沙里省约乌县那赫村
- 琅南塔省南塔县班班西达(自称:vɛ33 ɲɯ33)
- 约乌县洲回村;丰沙里省本讷县丰蔡村(自称:go55ɯ55 a11ma11)(Kingsada 1999)[5]
- 约乌县龙唐村;琅南塔省琅南塔县西达村(自称:si33 la33) (Shintani 2001)[6]
- 约乌县南星村(自称:ko55 ɯ21)(Kato 2008)[7]
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Kingsadā, Thō̜ngphet, and 新谷忠彦. 1999 Basic Vocabularies of the Languages Spoken in Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
新谷忠彦, Ryuichi Kosaka, and Takashi Kato. 2001. Linguistic Survey of Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
Kato, Takashi. 2008. Linguistic Survey of Tibeto-Burman languages in Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
- Edmondson, Jerold A. 2002. "The Central and Southern Loloish Languages of Vietnam". Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics (2002), pp. 1–13.
- Ma Ngọc Dung. 2000. Văn hóa Si La. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất ban văn hóa dân tôc.