Nisu language

Nisu
Southern Yi
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	300,000 apart from Northern (2004–2007)[1] 160,000 Northern (no date)[3]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Nisoish Nisoid Nisu
Writing system	Yi logograms
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: nsd – Southern yiv – Northern nos – Eastern nsv – Southwestern (duplicate or spurious code)[4] nsf – Northwestern
Glottolog	nisu1237  (Nisu–Nyisu)[5]

Nisu (Southern Yi) is a language cluster spoken by half a million Yi people of China. It is one of six Yi languages recognized by the government of China. The Yi script was traditionally used, though few can still read it.^[1] According to Lama (2012), Nisu (Nishu) autonyms include ne̠˧su˥, ne̱˧su˥pʰo˨˩, and nʲe̠˧ʂu˥.

References

1. Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Eastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Southwestern (duplicate or spurious code)[2] at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Northwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
3. Northern Nisu at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
4. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
5. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nisu–Nyisu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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