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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 ...
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 ...
Nisu (Southern Yi) is a language cluster spoken by half a million Yi people of China. It is one of six Yi languages recognized by the government of China. The Yi script was traditionally used, though few can still read it. [1] According to Lama (2012), [3] Nisu (Nishu) autonyms include ne̠33 su55, ne̠33 su55 pʰo21, and ɲe̠33 ʂu55.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Loloish is the traditional name for the family in English. Some publications avoid the term under the misapprehension that Lolo is pejorative, but it is the Chinese rendition of the autonym of the Yi people and is pejorative only in writing when it is written with a particular Chinese character (one that uses a beast, rather than a human, radical), a practice that was prohibited by the Chinese ...