Lisu language
| Lisu | |
|---|---|
| ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ | |
| Native to | China, Burma (Myanmar), India, Thailand |
| Ethnicity | Lisu |
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Native speakers
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ca. 940,000 (2000–2007) |
| Fraser Alphabet | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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Weixi Lisu Autonomous County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture (PRC) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | lisu1250 |
Lisu (Lisu: ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ or ꓡꓲꓢꓴ; Chinese: 傈僳语; pinyin: lìsùyǔ; Burmese: လီဆူဘာသာစကား, pronounced: [lìsʰù bàðà zəɡá]) is a tonal Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Yunnan (southwestern China), northern Burma (Myanmar), and Thailand and a small part of India. Along with Lipo, it is one of two languages of the Lisu people. Lisu has many dialects that originate from the country in which they live. Hua Lisu, Pai Lisu, and Lu Shi Lisu dialects are spoken in China. Although they are mutually intelligible, some have many more loan words from other languages than others.
The Lisu language is closely related to the Lahu and Akha languages and is also related to Burmese, Jinghpaw, and Yi languages.
Lisu can be split up into three dialects: northern, central, and southern, with northern being the standard.
Bradley (2003) lists the following three Lisu dialects.
In the introduction of A Study of Lisu dialects (傈僳语方言研究), Mu & Sun (2012) split Lisu into 3 dialects.
Mu & Sun (2012) compare a total of 5 datapoints in their comparative vocabulary table.
Sam Pollard's A-Hmao was adapted to write Lipo, another Lisoish language (sometimes called Eastern Lisu) spoken by the Lisu people.
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