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Nuosu
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sichuan Yi, ii, Nuosu language, Nosu, Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, Yi
the prestige language of the Yi people
Key facts
- Native to
- China
- Region
- Southern Sichuan , northern Yunnan
- Ethnicity
- Yi
- Native speakers
- (2 million cited 2000 census)
- Language family
- Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Lolo–Burmese Loloish Nisoish Nisoid Nuosu
- Standard forms
- Liangshan (Cool Mountain) dialect
- Writing system
- Yi syllabary , formerly Yi logograms
- Recognised minority language in
- China (Yunnan province)
- Iso 639 1
- ii Sichuan Yi, Nuosu
- Iso 639 2
- iii Sichuan Yi, Nuosu
- Iso 639 3
- iii Nuosu, Sichuan Yi
- Glottolog
- sich1238 Sichuan Yi
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- 北部方言彝文文献.jpg
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2000000
- native label
- Nuosu
- Wikimedia language code
- ii
- P10369
- Cambodia
- Commons category
- Nuosu language
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Article
Nuosu or Nosu ( ꆈꌠꉙ or written in traditional script, transcribed as Nuo su hxop), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language (Chinese: 彝语) and as such is the only one taught in schools in both oral and written forms. It is spoken by two million people and is increasing (as of PRC census); 60% were monolingual (1994 estimate). Nuosu is the native Nuosu name for their own language and is not used in Mandarin Chinese, though it may sometimes be translated as Nuòsūyǔ (simplified Chinese: 诺苏语; traditional Chinese: 諾蘇語).
The occasional terms 'Black Yi' (黑彝; hēi Yí) and 'White Yi' (白彝; bái Yí) are castes of the Nuosu people, not dialects.