Central Loloish | |
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Central Ngwi | |
Ethnicity | Yi people |
Geographic distribution | Southern China, Northern Vietnam, Northern Thailand, Laos, Myanmar |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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Glottolog | None |
The Central Loloish languages, also known as Central Ngwi, is a branch of Loloish 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 be paraphyletic, and splits up Bradley's (1997) Central Loloish into the following independent branches of Loloish. The Lawu 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 a Hanoish (Southern Loloish) language in Lama (2012).
Pelkey (2011:367) lists the following as Central Ngwi innovations.