Nasu | |
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Eastern Yi | |
Spoken in | China |
Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | 350,000 (2007) |
Language family | |
Writing system | Pollard script |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | either: ywq – Nasu ygp – Gepo (Köpu) |
Nasu (Naisu), or Nasu proper, is a Loloish language spoken by a quarter million Yi people of China. It is one of six Yi languages recognized by the government of China. Unlike most written Yi languages, it uses the Pollard (Miao) rather than Yi script.