Langenesis

Sino-Tibetan family

Nuosu (Sichuan Yi)

c. 1400 CE – today Living

Nuosu (Sichuan Yi) (c. 1400 CE – today) is a living Sino-Tibetan language. Lineage: Proto-Sino-Tibetan → Proto-Tibeto-Burman → Proto-Lolo-Burmese → Nuosu (Sichuan Yi).

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Speakers
2M (2,000,000)
ISO 639-3
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Glottocode
sich1238

Loloish (Ngwi) language of the Liangshan region of Sichuan, the prestige Yi variety, written in the standardised Yi syllabary. Classical Yi script attested from ~15th c.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Sino-Tibetanc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Tibeto-Burmanc. 2,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  3. Proto-Lolo-Burmesec. 500 BCE – 700 CE
  4. Nuosu (Sichuan Yi)c. 1400 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Lolo-Burmese.

Sources