Лолойские языки
Шаблон:Infobox language family
Лолойские языки, также известны как Нгви или в Китае как И, группа от 50 до 100 языков в Тибето-бирманских языках. Они очень близки к Бирманским языкам. Обе Лолойские и бирманские ветви языков хорошо объединены в Лоло-бирманские языки. However, subclassification is more contentious. Все Лолойские языки подвергались влиянию мон-кхмерских языков.[1]
Name
Loloish is the traditional name for the family. Some publications avoid the term under the misapprehension that Lolo is pejorative. Lolo is the Chinese name for the Yi people, but it is only pejorative when written with a particular Chinese character (one that uses a beast rather than human radical), and that practice has been stopped in China.[2] (See Yi people.)
Internal classification
Loloish is traditionally divided into a northern branch, with Lisu and the numerous Yi languages, and a southern branch, with everything else. However, per Thurgood (2003:8) there is also a central branch, with languages from both northern and southern. Bradley (2002) adds a fourth, southeastern branch:
- Northern Loloish: Nuosu, Nasu, etc.
- Central Loloish: Lisu–Lipho (incl. Lolopo, Lalo), Micha (Central) Yi, Lahu, Jinuo, etc.
- Southern Loloish: Akha–Hani, Phunoi–Bisu, Pholo, and ’Ugong (aberrant)
- Southeastern Loloish: Nisu, Phula, Sani, Azha, Khlula, Muji, Phowa, etc.
The Tujia language is difficult to classify due to massive influence from both Yi and Chinese. However, it may turn out to be a Loloish language. Bai also has numerous connections to Loloish, but its oldest core of vocabulary appears to be Old Chinese, and so it may be a Sinitic rather than Loloish language. Other unclassified Loloish languages are Gokhy (Gɔkhý) and Zauzou.
Литература
- George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
- ↑ Thurgood & LaPolla, 2003, The Sino-Tibetan languages, p. 9
- ↑ Benedict, Paul K. (1987). "Autonyms: ought or ought not." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 10: 188. Italics in original.