The Lawu languages or Lawoish languages are a proposed 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 ...
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[Hsiu, Andrew. 2017. ]
The Lawu languages: footprints along the Red River valley corridor
'. Internal classification within Loloish is uncertain. It may form a branch of
Central Loloish
The Central Loloish languages, also known as Central Ngwi, is a branch of Loloish languages in Bradley (1997). It is not used in Lama's (2012) classification. Central Loloish is also not supported in Satterthwaite-Phillips' (2011) computational p ...
, or it may be an independent branch of Loloish. The Lawu languages are:
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Lawu
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Awu
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Lewu
Cathryn Yang (2012)
[Yang, Cathryn. 2012]
Phonology sketch and classification of Lawu, an undocumented Ngwi language of Yunnan
In ''Linguistic Discovery'', Volume 10, Issue 2, Year 2012. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College. suggests that Lawu is most likely a
Central Ngwi language, but notes that it does not classify with
Lalo,
Lahu, or the
Lisoid (
Lisu Lisu may refer to:
*Lisu people, an ethnic group of Southeast Asia
*Lisu language, spoken by the Lisu people
* Old Lisu Alphabet or Fraser Alphabet
*Lisu syllabary
*Lisu (Unicode block), the block of Unicode characters for the Lisu language.
*Lisu ...
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Lipo
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Lolopo) languages.
References
*Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), ''Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages'', thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
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