Mili 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
Jingdong 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 ...
(in Anding 安定乡 and Wenlong 文龙乡 townships
),
Yun,
Zhenyuan, and
Xinping
Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County () is an autonomous county located in the central part of Yunnan Province, China. It is the westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Yuxi.
Administrative divisions
Xinping Yi and Dai A ...
counties of
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...
province, China. Mili is a variety of
Lolopo.
[Yang, Cathryn. 2011. ''Assessment of the Lolo languages: Current understanding and recommended next steps''. m.s.]
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary word list of Mili is from the ''Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer'' (1992:79-80).
References
*''Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer''
平彝族傣族自治县民族志(1992). Kunming: Yunnan People's Press
南民族出版社
Loloish languages
Languages of China
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