Chesu 车苏 is a

Loloish The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its relat ...

language spoken in southern

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, northern

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, and

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, China. The Chesu refer to themselves as ' or ' (Jishupo 吉输颇).Long Luogui 龙倮贵. 2007. ''Honghe yizu zuyuan zucheng ji qi renkou fenbu'
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. Yunnan (1955) reports that Chesu is spoken mostly in Taihe Township 太和乡, with a population of over 360 as of 1955.
(1955), p.40 '' Ethnologue'' reports 3,300 Chesu speakers out of an ethnic population of 6,600 people, as of 2007. Bradley (2007) reports that Chesu is closely related to Nasu and classifies it as a ''Nasoid'' language. Chesu speakers consider themselves to be a separate ethnic group from the surrounding Nisu speakers. The Chesu language is currently being replaced by Nisu and Chinese.Bradley, David. 2007. East and Southeast Asia. In Moseley, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 349-424. London & New York: Routledge. Chesu is also used as a second language by Hlersu speakers.

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