Alingpo (''a55 le21 pho21'';龙倮贵. 2007

. ; also called Yiqing 彝青 or Dry Yi 干彝) is a

Loloish language The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its rel ...

of eastern

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...

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Classification

Li, et al. (2011) classify Alingpo as an Eastern Yi language similar to Nasu and Gepo. However, Hsiu (2018)Hsiu, Andrew. 2018
Classifications of some lesser-known Lolo-Burmese languages
notes that it is a

Southeastern Loloish The Southeastern Loloish languages, also known as Southeastern Ngwi, are a branch of the Loloish languages. In Lama's (2012) classification, it is called ''Axi-Puoid'', which forms the Nisoish languages, Nisoish branch together with the ''Nisoid' ...

language closely related to Lope, Axi, Azhe, and Azha.

Distribution

Alingpo is spoken by tens of thousands of people in

Shizong County Shizong County () is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Qujing, in the east of Yunnan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the southeast. The Landian Yao () people of Gaoliang Township () are found in Xin'an (), Dinglei () ...

and Luoping County. In

Shilin County Shilin Yi Autonomous County (: Sani: ) is an autonomous county, under the jurisdiction of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, China. Etymology Lunan Yi Autonomous County () is the former name of Shilin, and usually be called for short as ...

, Alingpo is spoken in only one village, Yimeidu village 矣美堵村, by about 100 people. In

, Alingpo speakers are surrounded by Sani speakers.

References

Loloish languages Languages of Yunnan {{st-lang-stub