TheSouthern Loloish orSouthern Ngwi languages, also known as theHanoish orHanish languages, constitute a branch of theLoloish languages that includesAkha and Hani.

The branches included in Lama (2012), with languages from Bradley (2007), are:

Hanoid in Lama (2012) is alternatively calledAkoid in Bradley (2007), who recognizes the Hani-Akha and Haoni-Baihong languages as part of the Akoid group.

Other Southern Loloish languages are:

• Muda
• Paza (Phusang), a recently discovered language of northernLaos related toSila^[1]
• Bana or Bala^[2] in Laos. Speakers are included in the Kaw (Akha) ethnic group. The language is now being replaced by other larger languages such as Akha and Lahu.
• Suobi 梭比, spoken in Yinyuan Township 因远镇,Yuanjiang County
• Nuobi 糯比, closely related to Suobi
• Cosao, a Southern Loloish language closely related toKhir
• Yiche 奕车, spoken inHonghe County

Kato (2008) also documents:

• Muteun (mɔ21tɯ21)
• Khongsat (su55ma33)
• Khir (la21ja21)

Other Southern Loloish language varieties in south-centralYunnan includeBukong 布孔,Budu 布都,^[3]Asuo 阿梭,Duota 堕塔,^[4]Amu 阿木,Lami 腊米,Qiedi 切弟,Kabie 卡别,^[5]Woni 窝尼,Duoni 多尼, andHabei 哈备.Habei is unclassified within Southern Loloish.

A 2016 computational phylogenetic lexical analysis by Hsiu (2016)^[6] distinguished the following five branches of Southern Loloish, providing further support for the Hanoid (Akoid) and Bisoid branches in Lama (2012) and Bradley (2007). A new Siloid branch was added.

1. Hanoid
2. Bisoid
3. Siloid
4. Bi-Ka (?)
5. Jinuo

The Southern Loloish tree above was subsequently revised by Hsiu (2018)^[7] as follows, with 6 subgroups included.

Hsiu (2018) considers the Hani-Akha and Bi-Ka subgroups to be part of a northern linkage in south-central Yunnan, while the Siloid, Bisoid, Jino, and Mpi subgroups are part of a southern linkage in the China-Laos border region.^[7]

Lama (2012) lists the following changes fromProto-Loloish as Hanoish innovations.

• *m- → zero /__[u] (Hani andHaoni)
• *kh- > x- (Hani andHaoni)
• *N- > NC or C (nasal hardening rule inBisu andSangkong)
• Reversed order of syllables (family-wide)

• 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),Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington (archived)
• Kingsadā, Thō̜ngphet, andTadahiko Shintani. 1999Basic Vocabularies of the Languages Spoken in Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
• Shintani, Tadahiko, Ryuichi Kosaka, and Takashi Kato. 2001.Linguistic Survey of Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
• Kato, Takashi. 2008.Linguistic Survey of Tibeto-Burman languages in Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).

• Southern Loloish languages

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