LOLO-ENGLISH

Endangered Central Ngwi languages of Northwestern Yunnan

By Bradley David.

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Language
lolo-english
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PDF
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310 kB (317075 bytes)
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\13
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Лолойские языки

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Lund: Lund University, 2004. — 13 p. — Keynote presentation, 37th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan languages and linguistics.This talk briefly discusses a number of less well-known endangered Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages of the Central subbranch of the Ngwi branch and uses selected lexical items which reveal subgrouping. It also presents further data on one such language, Lamu. Firstly, let me explain the term Ngwi, a new name for this subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. The former term Loloish has been rejected by Chinese linguists as it contains the term Lolo, a term regarded as pejorative by some groups within this branch of TB. The more recent Chinese term Yi is a post-1950 invention, derived from a former term for some Dai groups of southwestern China, but using a different character. The more recent term Yipho, proposed to replace both terms, Loloish and Yi Branch, is a curious blend of the new Chinese term Yi plus a suffix meaning ‘male’ in those Ngwi languages in which *a has become /o/, but written using ‘ph’ rather than pinyin ‘p’ to represent aspirated [pæ].

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