Central Loloish languages

Central Loloish
Central Ngwi
Geographic
distribution:
Southern China, Vietnam
Linguistic classification: Sino-Tibetan
Subdivisions:

The Central Loloish languages, also known as Central Ngwi, are a branch of the Loloish languages that includes several of the Yi languages.

Languages

Apart from , Ethnologue 16 lists the following languages under Central Ngwi and Loloish which may be Central Loloish:

Lang’e (La’u), Limi, Mili, Talu, Zauzou

Thurgood & LaPolla (2003)[1] leave Zauzou unclassified within Loloish.

Mantsi (Lolo) may also be Central Loloish.

References

  1. ^ Thurgood & LaPolla, 2003, The Sino-Tibetan languages, p. 8