Nuobi (autonym: ''Lolbiq''; ' or ' in
Jinping County meaning 'downriver';
Chinese: 糯比 ''Luobi'' (''Lobi'')) 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 south-central
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 ...
, China.
Distribution
Nuobi is spoken in:
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Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County
Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County () is an autonomous county located in the central part of Yunnan Province, China. It is the westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Yuxi.
Administrative divisions
Xinping Yi and Da ...
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Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County
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Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County
Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County () is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, bordering Vietnam's Lai Châu Province to the south. Jinping is home to the Red-headed Yao () minority group who we ...
Dai (2009) reports that ethnic Hani in Yangjie Township (羊街乡),
Yuanjiang County
Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is a county of south-central Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. The county seat is the town of Lijiang (), while the county itself is under the administration of Yuxi City. It der ...
belong to the
Nuomei (糯美) and Nuobi (糯比) subgroups, who number 9,000 people and 6,000 people respectively in the township. The
Nuomei live mostly in Gedie (戈垤), Dangduo (党舵) (which also has
Kucong speakers), and Bamu (坝木) administrative villages, while the Nuobi reside mostly in Langzhi (朗支) (which also has Yi speakers in Zhongliangzi 中梁子 ), Yangjie (羊街), and Diexia (垤霞) (including Yidie, 依垤
[Dai 2009:113]) villages.
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary word list of Nuobi is from the ''Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer'' (1992:209–210).
Notes
References
* ''Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer''
平彝族傣族自治县民族志(1992). Kunming: Yunnan People's Press
南民族出版社
* Wang Liujin 王六金; Li Zhengyou 李正有. 2011. 国际哈尼/阿卡区域文化调查: 中国金平县哈尼田哈尼族罗比·罗们人文化实录. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press 云南人民出版社. (Luobi 罗比 and
Luomei 罗们 people o
Hanitian哈尼田, Jinhe Town 金河镇, Jinping County)
{{Lolo-Burmese languages
Southern Loloish languages
Languages of Yunnan