Lipo language
Not to be confused with Lolopo language.
Lipo | |
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Lolopo, Lolongo | |
Native to | China, Burma (Myanmar), India, Thailand |
Ethnicity | Lisu |
Native speakers | 250,000 (2007)[1] |
Pollard script; formerly Fraser | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
lpo |
Glottolog |
lipo1242 [2] |
Lipo (autonym: li˥pʰɔ˨˩; Chinese: 里泼), or Eastern Lisu, is a language of the Lisu people 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.
References
- ↑ Lipo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lipo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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