Shixing language
Shixing, also rendered Shuhi, is a Qiangic language of Sichuan, China. Two-thirds of its speakers are monolingual.

Shixing is also known by its Tibetan name Xumi (旭米 Xùmǐ); it is spoken by about 1800 people living by the Shuiluo River 水洛 in Shuiluo Township 水洛乡, Mili Tibetan Autonomous County.

Katia Chirkova reports two varieties.
Upper Xumi (autonym: )
Lower Xumi (autonym: )

Phonology

Consonants
Xumi features a very unusual phonemic contrast between voiceless  and voiced  alveolo-palatal lateral approximants and voiceless and voiced glottal fricatives.

 Only in Upper Xumi
 Only in Lower Xumi

Vowels

Oral
 The close and close-mid series are the same in both varieties: . The difference lies in the open-mid and open series; in Upper Xumi, these are , whereas in Lower Xumi, they are .
 At least in Lower Xumi , is phonetically close-mid .
  is closer in Upper Xumi ; in addition, the open central vowel  is phonetically near-open . For this reason, they may be transcribed with  and , respectively.
 The Lower Xumi  and  generally correspond to Upper Xumi  and , respectively.  is near-open near-back  and thus similar to the Upper Xumi , but more back.

Nasal
 Upper Xumi has the following nasal vowels: , as well as the marginal , which occurs only in the word  'on the roof / upstairs'.
 Lower Xumi has the following nasal vowels: , as well as the marginal , which occurs only in the word  'on the roof / upstairs'.  generally correspond to Upper Xumi , respectively.

References

Bibliography

 
 
Sun Hongkai [孙宏开]. 2014. A study of Shixing [Shixingyu yanjiu 史兴语研究]. Beijing: Minzu University Press.

Loloish languages
Qiangic languages
Languages of Sichuan