Lipo (autonym: '; ), or Eastern Lisu, is a language of the
Lisu people
The Lisu people ( Lisu: ; my, လီဆူလူမျိုး, ; ; th, ลีสู่) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit mountainous regions of Myanmar (Burma), southwest China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Prad ...
of China, similar to but not intelligible with
Lisu proper. Some Lipo are classified by the government as Lisu, others as
Yi. In some areas, the people prefer the name ''Lolopo'' or ''Lolongo''.
Some Lipo (''Lipa'' 利帕) speakers in Eryuan and Yongsheng counties are also referred to as ''Tujia'' (土家) (Yunnan 1956:19-20).
[Yunnan provincial ethnic classification research unit 南省民族识别研究组 1956. ''Preliminary summary of ethnic classifications in Yunnan province: no. 1, 2'' 南省民族识别研究第一、二阶段初步总结 Beijing: Central University for Nationalities Research Institute 中央民族学院.]
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A 283 word list recording in
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