The Nisoish or Yi languages, which contains both the Northern Loloish (Northern Ngwi) and Southeastern Loloish (Southeastern Ngwi) branches, are a branch...

have split off before Burmish did. The rest of the Loloish languages are as follows: The Nisoish, Lisoish, and Kazhuoish clusters are closely related, forming...

any semantic or phonologic similarity). Chinese family of scripts Nisoish languages Miyake, Marc. 2011. Yi romanization. (Parts 1-5, 6.) 中国少数民族文化遗产集粹...

The Lolo-Burmese languages (also Burmic languages) of Burma and Southern China form a coherent branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Until ca. 1950, the endonym...

Yunnan Province Ethnic Minority Languages Gazetteer (云南省志：少数民族语言文字志), p.30 Gao, Katie B. 2017. Dynamics of Language Contact in China: Ethnolinguistic...

within Nisoish is debated. Nisu is classified as Southeastern Loloish by Pelkey (2011), but is traditionally classified as a Northern Loloish language, including...

unintelligible varieties known as Yi, Lolo, Moso, or Noso; the six Yi languages recognized by the Chinese government hold only 25% to 50% of their vocabulary...

forms the Nisoish branch together with the Nisoid (Nisu–Lope) (Northern Loloish) languages. Southeastern Yi is one of the six Yi languages (fangyan 方言)...

Chinese). p. 40. Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012). Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation...

(Nisu–Lope), which forms the Nisoish branch together with the Axi-Puoid (Southeastern Loloish) languages. Two of the six Yi languages (fangyan 方言) officially...