The Loloish languages, also known as Yi and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in...

The Southern Loloish or Southern Ngwi languages, also known as the Hanoish or Hanish languages, constitute a branch of the Loloish languages that includes...

(Southeastern Loloish) languages. Two of the six Yi languages (fangyan 方言) officially recognized by the Chinese government belong to the Northern Loloish branch...

The Central Loloish languages, also known as Central Ngwi, is a branch of Loloish languages in Bradley (1997). It is not used in Lama's (2012) classification...

languages. In later publications, in place of Loloish, David Bradley instead uses the term Ngwi based on a conservative autonym in the Sanie language...

together with the Nisoid (Nisu–Lope) (Northern Loloish) languages. Southeastern Yi is one of the six Yi languages (fangyan 方言) officially recognized by the...

Proto-Loloish is the reconstructed ancestor of the Loloish languages. Reconstructions include those of David Bradley (1979), James Matisoff (2003), and...

The Jino language (Jinuo 基諾語; autonyms: tɕy˦no˦, ki˦ɲo˦) constitutes a pair of Loloish language varieties spoken by the Jino people of Yunnan, China. In...

Major languages include the Loloish languages, with two million speakers in western Sichuan and northern Yunnan, the Akha language and Hani languages, with...

Azha is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China. In Azha, the words for ‘goat’, ‘eat’, and ‘drink’ are innovative (Pelkey 2011:377)...

inscription, date from the early 12th century. The closely related Loloish languages are spoken by 9 million people in the mountains of western Sichuan...

and Lào Cai provinces, in the country's north. The Yi speak various Loloish languages, closely related to Burmese. The prestige variety is Nuosu, which...

The Lawu languages or Lawoish languages are a proposed branch of Loloish languages. Internal classification within Loloish is uncertain. It may form a...

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

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...

ethnolinguistic groups that speak Loloish languages. Most of these groups speak languages of uncertain affiliation within Loloish, and are under-documented or...

Languages spoken by the Bo people(s) may have included: Macro-Bai languages Caijia language Longjia language Kra languages Lachi language Loloish languages...

cluster of Loloish languages spoken by the Phula people of China. There are four principal varieties, which may be considered distinct languages: Phupha...

Pelkey (2011:458) notes that Kathu and Mo'ang are not Southeastern Loloish languages. Kathu word list (Wiktionary) Kathu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...

Southern Loloish subgroup of Loloish. Loloish and the Mru languages are closely related and are grouped within Tibeto-Burman as the Lolo-Burmese languages. In...

Phongset (pʰoŋ33 set55) is a Loloish language of Phongsaly Province, northern Laos. In Phongsaly Province, Laos, Phongset is spoken in Phongset village...

The Lisoish languages are a branch of the Loloish languages proposed by Ziwo Lama (2012) that includes Lisu and several of the Yi languages. David Bradley...

languages than others. The Lisu language is closely related to the Lahu and Akha languages and is also related to Burmese, Jingphaw and Yi languages....

changed into ɲ- or n- in most modern Loloish languages. Bradley (2005) reports significant variation in the Sanie language, and briefly compares the following...

Chinese: 哈尼語; pinyin: Hāníyǔ; Vietnamese: Tiếng Hà Nhì) is a language of the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic group spoken in China, Laos...

Kazhuo or Khatso (autonyms: kʰɑ⁵⁵tso³¹, kɑ⁵⁵tso³¹; Chinese: 卡卓), is a Loloish language of Xingmeng Township (兴蒙乡), Tonghai County, Yunnan, China. The speakers...

Miqie (Chinese: 密察语; pinyin: Mìcháyǔ; autonym: mi˥tɕʰe˨˩ pʰo˨˩), is a Loloish language of Yunnan. Its usage is declining. Micha (mi55 tɕʰi21 or mi55 tɕʰe21)...

Ache (Chinese: 阿车) is a Loloish language spoken by the Yi people of south-central Yunnan, China. Ethnologue lists Azhe as an alternate name. Ache is spoken...

languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...

Bisu (Chinese: 毕苏语) is a Loloish language of Thailand, with a couple thousand speakers in China. Varieties are Bisu proper (Mbisu) and Laomian (Guba),...