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Classical Yi – which is an ideographic script like the Chinese characters, but with a very different origin – has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but a proposal to encode 88,613 Classical Yi characters was made in 2007 (including many variants for specific regional dialects or historical evolutions. They are based on an extended set of ...
According to the Guizhou Ethnic Gazetteer (2002), [2] Yi autonyms include Nasu 哪苏, [3] Tusu 兔苏, [4] Lagou 腊勾, [5] Guo 果, [6] and so forth.. Most of Yi people of the Luquan area do not have the autonym Luoluo and Nasu (transliterated into Chinese as 纳苏) means "black", hence the Black Yi (黑彝 Hei Yi), [7] though Black Yi is an aristocratic caste distinction among the Yi ...
There are also ethnically Yi languages of Vietnam which use the Yi script, such as Mantsi. Many Yi in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi know Standard Chinese and code-switching between Yi and Chinese is common.
The construction of the road connected the areas of Yun, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, and Guangxi provinces, integrated the domestic post roads into the national post road network, communicated the four provinces around Guizhou, and opened up the main traffic artery. It is an unprecedented initiative in the Yi family of Shuixi and even the whole ...
Yindi 阴底, Bijie County 毕节县, Guizhou; The Yi have been mentioned since the Tang dynasty, and were said to have come from the north. The Yi are also noted for their belief in the Zitong (子童) Bodhisattva (菩萨). [2] Unlike most Gelao dialects, the Yi dialect uses a Loloish-derived numeral system (Zhang 1993:424). [2]
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.
Huaxi Yi and Miao Ethnic Township (simplified Chinese: 花溪彝族苗族乡; traditional Chinese: 花溪彝族苗族鄉; pinyin: Huāxī Yí Zú Miáo Zú Xiāng) is an ethnic township for Yi people and Miao people. It is under the administration of Qianxi County in southern Guizhou province, China. [1]
Notable attractions include Majie Ethnic Yi Village (马街彝族村寨), the historic site of Shimenkan church (石门坎教堂) and Caohai Lake nature reserve. In the early 20th century, the village of Shimenkan was known as the Overseas Heaven and a sacred civilized area due to the contributions by Rev. Sam Pollard , a British Methodist ...