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Nasu and Wusa are two of six Yi languages recognized by the Government of China. There are also some speakers in Vietnam. Unlike most written Yi languages, Nasu uses the Pollard script. A distinct form of the Yi script was traditionally used for Wusa, though few can still read it. The Nasu language is also known as the Black Yi language, but ...
The Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ, romanized: nuosu bburma, [nɔ̄sβ̩ bβ̠̩mā]; Chinese: 彝文; pinyin: Yí wén) are two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi syllabary. The script is historically known in Chinese as Cuan Wen (Chinese: 爨文; pinyin: Cuàn wén) or Wei Shu (simplified ...
The following writing scripts have not been allocated an ISO 15924 code.. APL; Avoiuli script; Aztec script; Badaga; Bagam; Balti A; Balti B; Beria; Bété; Bhujimol script; Borama
Eastern Yi (Nasu 纳苏) Northern Yi is the largest with some two million speakers and is the basis of the literary language. It is an analytic language. [22] There are also ethnically Yi languages of Vietnam which use the Yi script, such as Mantsi.
Northern Yi (Nuosu 诺苏) Eastern Yi (Nasu 纳苏) Another officially recognized Yi language (fangyan), Southern Yi (Nisu 尼苏), may or may not be a Northern Loloish language, as Pelkey (2011) classifies it as a Southeastern Loloish language based on phonological innovations shared with Southeastern instead of Northern Loloish languages.
Four of the six Yi languages (fangyan 方言) officially recognized by the Chinese government belong to Lama's Nisoish clade. Northern Yi (Nuosu 诺苏) Eastern Yi (Nasu 纳苏) Southern Yi (Nisu 尼苏) Southeastern Yi (Sani 撒尼) However, the remaining two of the six officially recognized Yi languages belong to Lama's Lisoish clade. Western ...
Yi Syllables is a Unicode block containing the 1,165 characters (1,164 phonemic syllables plus 1 syllable iteration mark) of the Liangshan Standard Yi script for writing the Nuosu (or Northern Yi, Sichuan Yi) language.
Nuosu or Nosu (ꆈꌠꉙ, transcribed as Nuo su hxop), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language (Chinese: 彝语) and, as such, is the only one taught in schools, both in its oral and written forms.