Loloish


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Noun 1. Loloish - languages spoken by hill tribes in northern Burma and neighboring areas
Burmese-Yi, Lolo-Burmese - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan
Lisu - a Loloish language
Akha, Hani - a Loloish language
Lahu - a Loloish language
Lolo, Yi - a Loloish language
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Bradley (1994: 179) classifies Nuosu as Northern Loloish within the Burmese-Lolo group (Tibeto-Burman), whereas the Chinese tradition labels Nuosu as the northern dialect within the Yi nationality, along with five other dialects.
On a partial, strictly word-order based definition of grammatical relations in Liangshan Nuosu *
The Lahu language belongs to the Central Loloish (= Yi) branch of the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the vast Tibeto-Burman family which, together with Chinese, constitutes the Sino-Tibetan linguistic stock.
Merit and the Millennium: Routine and Crisis in the Ritual Lives of the Lahu People