| Central Loloish | |
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| Central Ngwi | |
| Geographic distribution | Southern China,Northern Vietnam,Northern Thailand,Laos,Myanmar |
| Ethnicity | Yi people |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
TheCentral Loloish languages, also known asCentral Ngwi, is a branch ofLoloish languages in Bradley (1997). It is not used in Lama's (2012) classification. Central Loloish is also not supported in Satterthwaite-Phillips' (2011) computational phylogenetic analysis of the Lolo-Burmese languages.[1]
Lama (2012) considers Central Loloish to beparaphyletic, and splits up Bradley's (1997) Central Loloish into the following independent branches of Loloish. TheLawu language group has been added from Yang (2012)[2] and Hsiu (2017).[3]
Lisoish is the largest and most diverse group.Jinuo is classified as aHanoish (Southern Loloish) language in Lama (2012).
Pelkey (2011:367) lists the following as Central Ngwi innovations.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||