Nyisu language
| Nyisu | |
|---|---|
| Yellow Yi | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Yunnan |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | <300 (2005)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | nyis1235 |
Nyisu or Yellow Yi 黄彝 is a moribund Loloish language of Kunming, central Yunnan, China. There are fewer than 300 speakers remaining according to Bradley (2005, 2007). Nyisu speakers are also known as Doupo 都泼.[2]
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).[1] It is most closely related to Suondi Yi according to Bradley (2005), but Pelkey (2011) tentatively classifies Nyisu as related to Nisu.
References
- ^ a b Bradley, David. 2005. "Sanie and language loss in China".International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 2005, Issue 173, Pp. 159–176.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2013-07-19.
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- 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.