Proto-Loloish is the
reconstructed ancestor of the
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 ...
. Reconstructions include those of
David Bradley (1979),
James Matisoff
James Alan Matisoff ( zh, , t=馬蒂索夫, s=马蒂索夫, p=Mǎdìsuǒfū or zh, , t=馬提索夫, s=马提索夫, p=Mǎtísuǒfū; born July 14, 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a no ...
(2003), and Ziwo Lama (2012).
In later publications, in place of ''Loloish'', David Bradley instead uses the term ''Ngwi'' based on a conservative
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 ...
in the
Sanie language.
[Bradley, David. 2005. "Sanie and language loss in China".''International Journal of the Sociology of Language''. Volume 2005, Issue 173, Pp. 159–176.]
Bradley (1979)
Matisoff (2003)
Li (2011)
Li Yongsui (2011) reconstructs Proto-Lolo-Burmese (Proto-Mian-Yi 缅彝) based on 30 languages.
Lama (2012)
Lama (2012) reconstructs 37 consonants for Proto-Loloish (which he calls ''Proto-Nisoic''), 7 of which (marked in green) can occur as syllable finals. The glides /w/ and /j/ occur medially.
*Vowels (8):
*Tones (5): 1, 2, 3 (unchecked tones), H, L (checked tones)
References and notes
*Bradley, David. 1979. ''Proto-Loloish''. London: Curzon Press. .
*Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan. 2012
''Subgrouping Of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study From The Perspectives Of Shared Innovation And Phylogenetic Estimation'' Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington.
*Li Yongsui
永燧 2011. ''Burmo-Yi Phonology''
彝语音韵学 Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press.
*Matisoff, James. 2003
''Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction'' University of California publications in linguistics, v. 135. Berkeley: University of California Press. .
See also
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Proto-Tibeto-Burman language
Proto-Tibeto-Burman (commonly abbreviated PTB) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Tibeto-Burman languages, that is, the Sino-Tibetan languages, except for Chinese. An initial reconstruction was produced by Paul K. Benedict and since refined ...
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Lolo-Burmese languages
The Lolo-Burmese languages (also Burmic languages) of Burma and Southern China form a coherent branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.
Names
Until ca. 1950, the endonym ''Lolo'' was written with derogatory characters in Chinese, and for this reas ...
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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 ...
{{Lolo-Burmese languages
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 ...