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Loloish languages information


Loloish
Yi, Ngwi, Nisoic
EthnicityYi people
Geographic
distribution
Southern China and Southeast Asia
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Burman
    • Lolo-Burmese
      • Loloish
Proto-languageProto-Loloish
Subdivisions
  • Hanoish (Southern)
  • Lahoish
  • ?Naxish
  • Nusoish
  • Kazhuoish
  • Lisoish (Central)
  • Nisoish (Northern and Southeastern)
  • ?’Ugong
  • (?) Lawoish
  • (?) Jino
Glottologlolo1267

The Loloish languages, also known as Yi and occasionally Ngwi[1] or Nisoic,[2] are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its relatives. Both the Loloish and Burmish branches are well defined, as is their superior node, Lolo-Burmese. However, subclassification is more contentious.

SIL Ethnologue (2013 edition) estimated a total number of 9 million native speakers of Loloish ("Ngwi") languages, the largest group being the speakers of Nuosu (Northern Yi) at 2 million speakers (2000 PRC census).[a]

  1. ^ Bradley 1997.
  2. ^ Lama 2012.


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