Aluo (

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 ...

: ';''Yunnan Province Ethnic Minority Languages Gazetteer'' (云南省志：少数民族语言文字志), p.30 Naluo) is a

Loloish language 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 ...

spoken by the

Yi people The Yi or Nuosu people,; zh, c=彝族, p=Yízú, l=Yi ethnicity historically known as the Lolo,; vi, Lô Lô; th, โล-โล, Lo-Lo are an ethnic group An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with eac ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It is also known by its Nasu name ''Laka'' (also ''Gan Yi, Yala, Lila, Niluo'').

Names

Gao (2017:31) notes that in

Wuding County Wuding County (; Chuxiong Yi script: , IPA: ) is under the administration of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the north-central part of Yunnan province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the north. Wuding's county seat is located onl ...

, Yunnan, Aluo and Naluo are equivalent terms for the same Yi subgroup. ''Naluo'' in the ''Wuding County Gazetteer'' (1990) actually refers to ''Aluo'' speakers (Gao 2017:31). ''Naluo'' is not to be confused with '' Naruo'', a Taloid (

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 ...

) language of northern Yunnan.

Locations

Aluo is spoken in north

Wuding Wuding County (; Chuxiong Yi script: , IPA: ) is under the administration of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the north-central part of Yunnan province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the north. Wuding's county seat is located on ...

, Luquan, and

Yuanmou Yuanmou County (; Chuxiong Yi script: , IPA: ) is under the administration of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the north of Yunnan province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the north. The famous Yuanmou Man Yuanmou Man (, ''Ho ...

counties,

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 ...

, and in

Huili Huili (; Yi: or ''nyi ddix xiep'' or ''hop li xiep'') is a county-level city of far southern Sichuan province, China. It is under the administration of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. The county-level city was severely affected by t ...

and

Miyi Miyi County () is a county in the far south of Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestan ...

counties,

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

. Gao (2017)Gao, Katie B. 2017.
Dynamics of Language Contact in China: Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Variation in Yunnan
'. PhD Dissertation: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. reports that Aluo (autonym: ; also known as the Gan Yi) is spoken in northwestern

as well as in

. YYFC (1983)YYFC (Yunnan University for Nationalities and Guiding Committee of Studying and Working on Yunnan Minority Languages 云南民族大学格云南民族语文指导工作委员会编). 1983. 云南彝语方言词语汇编 Collection of Yi Dialects’ Lexicon in Yunnan(Handwritten Mimeograph). documents Aluo (autonym: ) of Dongpo Township 东坡傣族乡,

, Yunnan.

References

External links

* An open access archiv
collection of Aluo (Yi) recordings
are available at

Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...

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