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Nuosu
Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, Sichuan Yi
ꆈꌠꉙNuosuhxop
Native to
China
Region
Southern Sichuan, northern Yunnan
Ethnicity
Yi
Native speakers
2 million (2000 census)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Lolo–Burmese
Loloish
Nisoish
Nisoid
Nuosu
Standard forms
Liangshan (Cool Mountain) dialect
Writing system
Yi syllabary, formerly Yi logograms
Official status
Recognised minority language in
China (Yunnan province)
Language codes
ISO 639-1
ii Sichuan Yi, Nuosu
ISO 639-2
iii Sichuan Yi, Nuosu
ISO 639-3
iii Nuosu, Sichuan Yi
Glottolog
sich1238 Sichuan Yi
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Nuosu or Nosu (ꆈꌠꉙ, transcribed as Nuo su hxop), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language (Chinese: 彝语) and, as such, is the only one taught in schools, both in its oral and written forms. It was spoken by two million people and was increasing (as of PRC census); 60% were monolingual (1994 estimate).
Nuosu is the native Nuosu name for their own language and is not used in Mandarin Chinese, though it may sometimes be translated as Nuòsūyǔ (simplified Chinese: 诺苏语; traditional Chinese: 諾蘇語).[2]
The occasional terms "Black Yi" (黑彝; hēi Yí) and 'White Yi' (白彝; bái Yí) are castes of the Nuosu people, not dialects.[citation needed]
Nuosu is one of several often mutually unintelligible varieties known as Yi, Lolo, Moso, or Noso; the six Yi languages recognized by the Chinese government hold only 25% to 50% of their vocabulary in common. They share a common traditional writing system, though this is used for shamanism rather than daily accounting.[citation needed]
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Nuosu or Nosu (ꆈꌠꉙ, transcribed as Nuo su hxop), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it...
Look up Nuosu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nuosu may refer to: Yi people, of southern China and Vietnam and Thailand Nuosulanguage, also known...
Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ nuosu bburma [nɔ̄sβ̩ bβ̠̩mā]; Chinese: 彝文; pinyin: Yí wén) are two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram...
1981 Cabinet notification prescribes, rule #6.[citation needed] In the Nuosulanguage, ꀕ is used to represent a doubled sound, for example ꈀꎭꀕ, kax sha sha...
The Yi or Nuosu people (Nuosu: ꆈꌠ, [nɔ̄sū]; see also § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in southern China. Numbering nine million people, they...
Nuosulanguage also contrasts six categories of nasals, /m, n, m̥, n̥, ɲ, ŋ/. They are represented in romanisation by <m, n, hm, hn, ny, ng>. Nuosu also...
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)...
11940 1998 Transliteration ISO 11940-2 2007 Transcription ALA-LC The Nuosulanguage, spoken in southern China, is written with its own script, the Yi script...
and "ї" Yi language or the Nuosulanguage spoken by the Yi people of China Yi script, either of two scripts used to write the Yi languages Yiddish (ISO...
same vowel [ɯ] in each case and no r-coloring[citation needed]. The Nuosulanguage has two similar "buzzed" vowels that are described as syllabic fricatives...
in dictionaries of the standardized Yi script used for writing the Nuosulanguage in Southern Sichuan and Northern Yunnan. Sets of radicals for other...
Northern Loloish branch. Northern Yi (Nuosu 诺苏) Eastern Yi (Nasu 纳苏) Another officially recognized Yi language (fangyan), Southern Yi (Nisu 尼苏), may or...
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation...
The Torch Festival or Fire Festival (Chinese: 火把节; pinyin: Huǒbǎ Jié; Nuosulanguage: ꄔꊒ; YYPY Dut Zie; Bai: Huix‧zuit‧jiarx), also known as the Xinghui...
of the Liangshan Standard Yi script for writing the Nuosu (or Northern Yi, Sichuan Yi) language. The Sichuan Yi Pinyin romanization shown below is simplified...
Autonomous Prefecture in southern Sichuan speak the Nuosulanguage, which is one of the Lolo-Burmese languages; Yi is written using the Yi script, a syllabary...
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qualities common in other Loloish languages like nasal vowels or the laryngeally-constricted vowels found in Nuosu. The two fricated vowels, /z̩/ (transcribed...
community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan...
be sub-divided into five main varieties (Huáng Jiànmíng 1993), i.e. the Nuosu, Nasu, Nisu, Sani and Azhe varieties." 黄建明 Huáng Jiànmíng 彝族古籍文献概要 1993...
system of slavery and nobility among the Yi people (often called Lolo, Nuosu, though Winnington called them Norsu). The Yi people were split into three...
proto-language of Shina enclaves in the Hindu Kush". Acta Orientalia (70): 7–62. Edmondson, Jerold A.; Esling, John H.; Lama, Ziwo (2017). "Nuosu Yi"....
of the six Yi languages (fangyan 方言) officially recognized by the Chinese government belong to Lama's Nisoish clade. Northern Yi (Nuosu 诺苏) Eastern Yi...
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