The Siloid languages belong to the Southern
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 ...
(
Hanoish) branch of the
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
language family. The Siloid branch was first proposed by Hsiu (2016).
Most Siloid languages are spoken in
Phongsaly Province
Phongsaly province ( Lao ຜົ້ງສາລີ), also spelled ''Phôngsali'', is a province of Laos in the extreme north of the country. The capital of the province is the city of Phôngsali. Phongsaly is between Yunnan (China), and Điệ ...
, northern
Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
, with smaller numbers of speakers living in China (
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 Vietnam (
Lai Châu Province
Lai or LAI may refer to:
Abbreviations
* Austrian Latin America Institute (Österreichisches Lateinamerika-Institut)
* ''Latin American Idol'', TV series
* La Trobe Institute, Melbourne, Australia
* Leaf area index, leaf area of a crop or ve ...
).
Languages
The Siloid languages are:
*
Sila
*
Khir
Banavan ( fa, بنوان, also Romanized as Banavān and Banvān; also known as Khir, and Qal‘eh-i-Banaven) is a village in Khir Rural District, Roniz District, Estahban County, Fars Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic R ...
*
Cosao
*
Paza
*
Phana’
*
Wanyä
*
Akeu
*
Gokhy
Classification
The internal classifications of Siloid languages were analyzed in a 2016 computational phylogenetic lexical analysis by Hsiu (2016).
[Hsiu, Andrew. 2016. ]
The classification of Cosao: a Lolo-Burmese language of China and Laos
'. Presented at the 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium, Guwahati, India.
;Siloid
*
Wanyä
*(core branch)
**
Phusang
**
Khir
Banavan ( fa, بنوان, also Romanized as Banavān and Banvān; also known as Khir, and Qal‘eh-i-Banaven) is a village in Khir Rural District, Roniz District, Estahban County, Fars Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic R ...
,
Cosao
**
Sila (Sida)
The Siloid classification above was subsequently revised by Hsiu (2018)
[Hsiu, Andrew. 2018]
Classifications of some lesser-known Lolo-Burmese languages
as follows.
;Siloid
*Luma, Pala
*
Akeu,
Gokhy
*
Wanyä (Muchi)
*Sila cluster:
**
Sila, Sida
**
Paza (Phusang)
**
Khir
Banavan ( fa, بنوان, also Romanized as Banavān and Banvān; also known as Khir, and Qal‘eh-i-Banaven) is a village in Khir Rural District, Roniz District, Estahban County, Fars Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic R ...
,
Cosao
**
Phana
References
*Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), ''Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages'', thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
archived
*Kingsadā, Thō̜ngphet, and
Tadahiko Shintani. 1999 ''Basic Vocabularies of the Languages Spoken in Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R.'' Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
*
Shintani, Tadahiko, Ryuichi Kosaka, and Takashi Kato. 2001. ''Linguistic Survey of Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R.'' Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
*Kato, Takashi. 2008. ''Linguistic Survey of Tibeto-Burman languages in Lao P.D.R.'' Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
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