Aluo (
autonym: ';
[''Yunnan Province Ethnic Minority Languages Gazetteer'' (云南省志：少数民族语言文字志), p.30] Naluo
) 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 ...
spoken by the
Yi people
The Yi or Nuosu people,; zh, c=彝族, p=Yízú, l=Yi ethnicity historically known as the Lolo,; vi, Lô Lô; th, โล-โล, Lo-Lo are an ethnic group in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Numbering nine million people, they are the seve ...
of
China
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. It is also known by its
Nasu name ''Laka'' (also ''Gan Yi, Yala, Lila, Niluo'').
Names
Gao (2017:31)
notes that in
Wuding County, Yunnan, Aluo and Naluo are equivalent terms for the same Yi subgroup. ''Naluo'' in the ''Wuding County Gazetteer'' (1990) actually refers to ''Aluo'' speakers (Gao 2017:31). ''Naluo'' is not to be confused with ''
Naruo'', a
Taloid (
Central Loloish) language of northern Yunnan.
Locations
Aluo is spoken in north
Wuding,
Luquan, and
Yuanmou counties,
Yunnan
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, and in
Huili and
Miyi
Miyi County () is a county in the far south of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Panzhihua
Panzhihua (), formerly Dukou (), is a prefecture-level city located in the far south of Sichuan province, People's Republic of ...
counties,
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of t ...
. Gao (2017)
[Gao, Katie B. 2017. ]
Dynamics of Language Contact in China: Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Variation in Yunnan
'. PhD Dissertation: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. reports that Aluo (autonym: ; also known as the Gan Yi) is spoken in northwestern
Wuding County as well as in
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of t ...
. YYFC (1983)
[YYFC (Yunnan University for Nationalities and Guiding Committee of Studying and Working on Yunnan Minority Languages 云南民族大学格云南民族语文指导工作委员会编). 1983. 云南彝语方言 词语汇编 Collection of Yi Dialects’ Lexicon in Yunnan(Handwritten Mimeograph).] documents Aluo (autonym: ) of Dongpo Township 东坡傣族乡,
Wuding County, Yunnan.
References
External links
* An open access archiv
collection of Aluo (Yi) recordingsare available at
Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...
.
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Loloish languages
Languages of China