| Proto-Loloish | |
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| Reconstruction of | Loloish languages |
Reconstructed ancestor | |
Proto-Loloish is thereconstructed ancestor of theLoloish languages. Reconstructions include those ofDavid Bradley (1979),James Matisoff (2003), and Ziwo Lama (2012).
In later publications, in place ofLoloish, David Bradley instead uses the termNgwi based on a conservativeautonym in theSanie language.[1]
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Li Yongsui (2011) reconstructs Proto-Lolo-Burmese (Proto-Mian-Yi 缅彝) based on 30 languages.
Lama (2012) reconstructs 37 consonants for Proto-Loloish (which he callsProto-Nisoic), 7 of which (marked in green) can occur as syllable finals. The glides /w/ and /j/ occur medially.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
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| Stops | Voiceless | p | t | ts | tɕ | k | ʔ | ||||||
| Voicelessaspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tsʰ | tɕʰ | kʰ | h | |||||||
| Voiced | b | d | dz | dʑ | ɡ | ||||||||
| Prenasalized | mb | nd | ndz | ndʑ | ŋɡ | ||||||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | s | x | ||||||||||
| Voiced | z | ʑ | ɣ | ||||||||||
| Nasals | Voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
| Liquids andSemivowels | Voiced | -w- | l | r | -j- | ||||||||
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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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||