Nyisu language
Appearance
Nyisu | |
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Yellow Yi | |
Native to | China |
Region | Yunnan |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
The Nyisu or Yellow Yi 黄彝 of Kunming, central Yunnan speak a Northern Yi dialect that is now moribund, with fewer than 300 speakers remaining according to Bradley (2005, 2007).[1] The Yellow Yi had originally migrated from Sichuan, and live in 4 villages in northwestern Fumin County (endangered) and one village in northwestern Anning, Yunnan (moribund, highly endangered).[2] It is most closely related to Suondi Yi according to Bradley (2005), but Pelkey (2011) tentatively classifies Nyisu as related to Nisu.
References
- Bradley, David. 2007. East and Southeast Asia. In Moseley, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.
- Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan. 2012. Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages. Ph.D. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington.
- Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.