• two languages of the Lisu people. Lisu has many dialects that originate from the country in which they live. Hua Lisu, Pai Lisu and Lu Shi Lisu dialects...
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  • support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Lisu people (Lisu: ꓡꓲ‐ꓢꓴ ꓫꓵꓽ; Burmese: လီဆူလူမျိုး, [lìsʰù]; Chinese: 傈僳族; pinyin: Lìsùzú;...
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    Fraser script (redirect from Lisu (script))
    The Fraser or Old Lisu script is an artificial abugida for the Lisu language invented around 1915 by Sara Ba Thaw, a Karen preacher from Myanmar, and improved...
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  • Thailand Lisu language, Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Lisu people Fraser script or Old Lisu Alphabet, used to write the language Lisu syllabary Lisu (Unicode...
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    alphabets The Lisu people – Lisu languageLisu script The Manchus – Manchu language – Manchu alphabet The Mongols – Mongolian language – Mongolian alphabet...
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  • known as eastern Lisu, is a language of the Lisu people of China, similar to but not intelligible with the Lisu language proper. Some Lipo are classified...
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  • James O. Fraser (category Translators of the Bible into China's tribal languages)
    the Lisu people, of Southwestern China, in the early part of the 20th century. He is credited with developing the Fraser script for their language. Born...
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  • Lisu is a Unicode block containing characters of the Fraser alphabet, which is used to write the Lisu language. This alphabet (and by extension the block)...
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    personnel and members of the indigenous Lisu people (Yobin) who speak a tonal Lisu language part of Tibeto-Burman language family. According to the 2011 census...
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    Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in northwestern Yunnan, China. The titular ethnic group is the Lisu people, who make up...
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    "Language policy and language planning in mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar and Lisu". Linguistics Vanguard. 5 (1). doi:10.1515/lingvan-2018-0071. S2CID 203848291...
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  • Lisu Supplement is a Unicode block containing supplementary characters of the Fraser alphabet, which is used to write the Lisu language. This is a supplement...
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    Lijiang (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    Festival, especially the Torch Festival. Lisu The Lisu language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Lisu people live in a high-slope area. Due...
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  • and Lisu languages. Upon the creation of the Fraser (Old Lisu) script in 1915, Fraser started work on translating the Bible. In the Central Lisu dialect...
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    the written Lisu language and the Fraser Alphabet, which has been officially adopted by the Chinese government. Reading and writing in Lisu was mainly...
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    to write the Naxi language, the script for the Sui language, the script for the Yi languages, and the syllabary for the Lisu language. Chinese characters...
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  • [ɑ˧˩ nuŋ˧˥]; Chinese: 阿侬语; pinyin: Ānóngyǔ; Lisu: Fuche Naw[citation needed]) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Nung people in Fugong County, China...
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  • Loloish was traditionally divided into a northern branch, with Lisu and the numerous Yi languages and a southern branch, with everything else. However, per...
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    Kachin State (category Articles containing Burmese-language text)
    and the Lisu, who speak both the Lisu language and the Lipo language. English is also widely spoken as a working language. The economy of Kachin State is...
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    Weixi Lisu Autonomous County is an autonomous county of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in northwest Yunnan province, China. The titular ethnic group...
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    Writing systems of Southeast Asia (category Languages of Southeast Asia)
    script Ersu Shaba Kayah Li alphabet Fraser alphabet (used to write the Lisu language) Naxi script Geba syllabary Dongba symbols Zomi script Tangut script...
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  • List of constructed scripts (category Constructed languages)
    Middle-Earth, Houghton Mifflin, 1989 "Unker Non-Linear Writing System". s.ai. Retrieved 2023-08-23. Constructed scripts and languages at omniglot.com...
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    spoken near the Hkakabo Razi, Kachin State which is adjacent to Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan and Tibet Autonomous Region. Suzuki (2012)...
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  • between subject and object is not reliably marked. The Lolo–Burmese language Lisu has been described as highly topic-prominent, and Sara Rosen has demonstrated...
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    Gongshan Derung and Nu Autonomous County (category Articles containing Lisu-language text)
    Nùzú Zìzhìxiàn; Lisu: ꓗꓳꓹ-ꓢ ꓔꓴꓽ-ꓡꓳꓽ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓠꓳꓸ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓚꓲꓸ ꓛꓬꓽ ꓗꓪꓼ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓫꓯꓹ; Derung: Koksang, the name has nothing to do with the Derung language for Gaoligong...
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    Kachin people (category Articles containing Kachin-language text)
    Lashi/Lachik, the Lawngwaw/Maru, and to a lesser extent, the Rawang and the Lisu. Kachin identity is heterogenous and diverse, as it encompasses various ethnolinguistic...
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  • Voiceless nasal glottal approximant (category Articles containing Lisu-language text)
    are Krim, Lisu, and Pirahã. More rarely, a language will contrast oral /h/ and nasal /h̃/. Two such languages are neighboring Bantu languages of Angola...
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    Characters (Unicode block) Khitan Small Script (Unicode block) Lisu (Unicode block) Lisu Supplement (Unicode block) Miao (Unicode block) Modifier Tone...
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    Vulgate Latvian: Bible translations into Latvian Lisu: Bible translations into the languages of China § Lisu Lithuanian: Bible translations into Lithuanian...
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    missionaries in the twentieth century. The four languages are: Akha (or Kaw) Lahu Pyen Lisu Other Loloish languages include the Nusu The largest linguistic diversity...
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