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| Processed by: | ycandau (2013-10-29 13:41:28 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 48556 - submitted by 'monigeria' >> the record label Sublime Frequencies recently released an album called "Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China" - on the album there is at least one reference to Nisu - track 13 is entitled: "Isong [Nisu Language], Sixian [Chinese Language]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisu_language Nisu (Southern Yi) is a language cluster spoken by half a million Yi people of China. It is one of six Yi languages recognized by the government of China. A distinct form of the Yi script was traditionally used, though few can still read it.[2] According to Lama (2012), Nisu (Nishu) autonyms include ne̠˧su˥, ne̱˧su˥pʰo˨˩, and nʲe̠˧ʂu˥. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%9D%E8%AF%AD%E5%8D%97%E9%83%A8%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80 彝语南部方言，又称尼苏语，是彝语的一种方言，主要分布在云南省南部，使用人数达50万。操这种方言的人多自称“尼苏”/ni˥su˧/ http://www.language-archives.org/language/nsd Nisu, a Burmic language spoken in Yunnan, China, is traditionally divided into three dialects: Yuan-jin, E-xin, and Shi-jian (Chen et al., 1985; Zhu, 2005). However, little evidence has been presented to justify this grouping, and the degrees of difference between dialects have been left unexplored. In this research paper, I re-examine Nisu dialect clusters using several complementary methodologies: comparative dialectology, intelligibility testing, and a recently developed quantitative measure of pronunciation differences known as Levenshtein distance (Heeringa, 2004). |
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+ 尼蘇 尼苏 [ni2 su1] /Nisu (language)/ |