Listed below are lesser-known ethnolinguistic groups that speak
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 rel ...
. Most of these groups speak languages of uncertain affiliation within Loloish, and are under-documented or undocumented.
[Hattaway, Paul. 2000. ''Operation China: introducing all the peoples of China''. Carlisle: Piquant. ]
List of languages and ethnic groups
Yunnan (1979)
[Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaocha zubian 云南民族识别综合调查组编 (1979). ]
Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaocha baogao (1960 nian)
' 云南民族识别综合调查报告(1960年). Kunming: Yunnan minzuxue yanjiu suoyin 云南民族学研究所印. lists the following ethnolinguistic groups that are classified as
Yi.
*
Mengwu 孟武 (exonym: Awu 阿武) of
Xichou County
Xichou County () is under the administration of the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the southeast of Yunnan province, China.
Administrative divisions
In the present, Xichou County has 2 towns and 7 townships.
;2 towns
* Xisa ( ...
. Population: 1,243 as of 1960. Yunnan (1979) lists Mengwu 孟武 twice, and in another entry lists Mengwu 孟武 of
Maguan County
Maguan County (, vi, Mã Quan) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, bordering Vietnam's Lào Cai
Lào Cai () is a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Lào Cai Provi ...
and
Xichou County
Xichou County () is under the administration of the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the southeast of Yunnan province, China.
Administrative divisions
In the present, Xichou County has 2 towns and 7 townships.
;2 towns
* Xisa ( ...
with a population of 1,379. Also known as Lai () (autonym; a branch of the ''Awu'' , also called ''Mengwu'' ):
[''Wenshan Prefecture Ethnic Gazetteer'' 文山壮族苗族自治州志 (2005)] in Xisa , Xichou; Daping and Nanwenhe of Malipo.
*Sanda 三达 of Dazhai, Sanda Township,
Jinghong
Jinghong (; khb, ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩩ᩵ᨦ; th, เชียงรุ่ง, , ; lo, ຊຽງຮຸ່ງ; also formerly romanised as ''Chiang Hung'', ''Chengrung'', ''Cheng Hung'', Jeng Hung, ''Jinghung'', ''Keng Hung'', ''Kiang Hung'' and ' ...
City (景洪市三达乡大寨). There were only 2 elderly women who remembered about 40 words. Yunnan (1979) classifies Sanda as a Yi language, but also notes that it has many words of
Hani origin. The Sanda have no
autonym
Autonym may refer to:
* Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym
* Autonym (botany), an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name
See also
* Nominotypical subspecies, in zo ...
. Population: 946 as of 1960.
*Datou 达头 of
Pu'er and
Simao. Population: 254 as of 1960. Their traditions and festivals are similar to those of the Yi people of
Weishan County.
*Aciga 阿次嘎 of
Lancang County. Spoken in Yakou Township 雅口乡 and Nanxian Township 南现乡
澜沧拉祜族自治县糯扎渡镇南现村
/ref> (now Nuozhadu Town 糯扎渡镇). Population: 50 as of 1960. 100 years ago, they had migrated from Niujian Mountain 牛肩山, Zhenyue County 镇越县 (now renamed as Mengla County
Mengla County (; Tai Lue: , ''Mueang La''; lo, ເມືອງລ້າ; th, เมืองล้า) is a county under the jurisdiction of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, in far southern Yunnan province, China. ''Meng'' is a vari ...
), and had spoken a different language that is now extinct. They now speak Chinese and Yi. Aciga is an exonym, as the Aciga do not have an autonym.
A Yi language called Zhayipo 扎依颇 (') is spoken in Mile County
Mile (; ; Hani language: ; Yi: ) is a county-level city located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. It is named after the Maitreya Buddha, for which there was a temple located on a nearby mountain, making it the ...
.[Long Luogui 龙倮贵. 2007. ''Honghe yizu zuyuan zucheng ji qi renkou fenbu']
红河彝族族源族称及其人口分布
.
Lewu of Jingdong Yi Autonomous County
Jingdong Yi Autonomous County () is an autonomous county in the west-central part of Yunnan Province, China. It is the northernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Pu'er.
Administrative divisions
In the present, Jingdong Yi ...
, Yunnan is an extinct Loloish language.
Notes and references
*Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012),
Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages
', thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
archived
*Yunnan provincial ethnic classification research unit 南省民族识别研究组 1956. ''Preliminary summary of ethnic classifications in Yunnan province: no. 1, 2'' 南省民族识别研究第一、二阶段初步总结 Beijing: Central University for Nationalities Research Institute 中央民族学院.
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