The Kazhuoish languages are a branch of
Loloish languages
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 ...
proposed by Lama (2012). There are five languages.
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Katso
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Samu
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Sanie
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Sadu
Sadu (german: Zood; hu, Cód) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, 27 km south of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single ...
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Meuma
Samei may or may not be a Kazhuoish language.
However, Bradley (2007) classifies the Kazhuoish languages as
Northern Loloish
The Northern Loloish languages, also known as Northern Ngwi, are a branch of the Loloish languages that includes the literary standard of the Yi people. In Lama's (2012) classification, it is called ''Nisoid'' (''Nisu–Lope''), which forms the ...
, and considers
Samu and
Sanie to be closely related to
Nasu.
[Bradley, David. 2007. East and Southeast Asia. In Moseley, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.]
References
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{{Lolo-Burmese languages