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{{Short description|Loloish language of Yunnan, China}}

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|date=2005

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'''Nyisu''' or '''Yellow Yi 黄彝''' is a [[Loloish languages|Loloish]] language of [[Kunming]], central Yunnan, China. There are fewer than 300 speakers remaining according to Bradley (2005, 2007). Nyisu speakers are also referred to as '''Doupo 都泼'''.<ref name="AsiaHarvest">{{Cite web |title=China |url=http://asiaharvest.org/index.php/people-group-profiles/china/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801062653/http://asiaharvest.org/index.php/people-group-profiles/china/ |archive-date=2013-08-01 |access-date=2013-07-19 |website=Asia Harvest |language=en}}</ref>

The '''Nyisu''' or '''Yellow Yi 黄彝''' of [[Kunming]], central Yunnan speak a Northern Yi dialect that is now moribund, with fewer than 300 speakers remaining according to Bradley (2005, 2007).<ref>Bradley, David. 2007. "East and Southeast Asia".</ref> The Yellow Yi had originally migrated from [[Sichuan]], and live in 4 villages in northwestern [[Fumin County]] (endangered) and one village in northwestern [[Anning, Yunnan]] (moribund, highly endangered).<ref name="Bradley2005">{{Cite journal |last=Bradley, |first=David. |date=2005. "|title=Sanie and languageLanguage lossLoss in China".'' |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language''. Volume|language=en |volume=2005, Issue |issue=173, Pp|pages=159–176 |doi=10. 159–1761515/ijsl.2005.2005.173.159}}</ref> It is most closely related to [[Nuosu language|Suondi Yi]] according to Bradley (2005),. butNyisu Pelkey(''{{IPA|ȵi55 (2011su33 pho21}}'') tentativelywas classifiesalso Nyisudocumented asby relatedLama to(2012) Nisuin Luomian Township 罗免乡, [[Fumin County]].

Pelkey (2011) tentatively classifies Nyisu of [[Shilin County]] as belonging to the [[Nisu language|Nisu]] language cluster. Nyisu (''{{IPA|ȵi55 su33 pʰu55}}'') of Gaohanshan Village, Zhuqing Township, [[Shilin County]] is documented in Wu Zili (1997) and YNYF (1984). It is not known whether Nyisu of Shilin and Nyisu of Kunming are closely related.

==References==

== References ==

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*Bradley, David. 2007. East and Southeast Asia. In Moseley, Christopher (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages'', 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.

*Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan. 2012. ''[https://uta-ir.tdl.org/uta-ir/bitstream/handle/10106/11161/Lama_uta_2502D_11591.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages]''. Ph.D. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington.

*Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. ''Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation''. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

== Sources ==

{{Languages of China}}

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* {{Cite book |last=Bradley |first=David |title=Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |editor-last=Moseley |editor-first=Christopher |___location=London |pages=349–424 |language=en |chapter=East and Southeast Asia}}

* {{Cite thesis |last=Lama |first=Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan |title=Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study From the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation |date=2012 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=University of Texas at Arlington |language=en |hdl=10106/11161 |hdl-access=free}}

* {{Cite book |last=Pelkey, |first=Jamin. 2011. ''|title=Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation''. Berlin:|date=2011 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton. |___location=Berlin |language=en}}

* {{Cite journal |last=Wu |first=Zili 武自立 |date=1997 |title=Nísū Yíyǔ sāibiān yīn zài fāngyán hé qīnshǔ yǔyán zhōng de duìyìng |script-title=zh:尼苏彝语塞边音在方言和亲属语言中的对应 |trans-title=A Comparative Account of Lateral Stops in Nisu Yi and Other Closely Related Language Varieties |journal=Mínzú yǔwén |language=zh |volume=1997 |issue=3 |pages=16–22}}

* {{Cite book |title=Yúnnán Yíyǔ fāngyán cíyǔ huìbiān |date=1984 |publisher=Yunnan minzu xueyuan |editor-last=YNYF |___location=Kunming |language=zh |script-title=zh:云南彝语方言词语汇编 |trans-title=A Lexical Compendium of Yi Dialects |editor-last2=Editorial Committee}}

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