Classifying Lalo languages: subgrouping, phonetic distance, and intelligibility

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Yang, Cathryn
• مؤلفون آخرون: SIL International
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Arts and Humanities; Lalo; Classification
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177644

Lalo is a Central Ngwi (Loloish) language cluster spoken in western Yunnan, China by fewer than 300,000 speakers. Previously, most Lalo varieties were undocumented, and Lalo was thought to have only two dialects. This paper presents the first rigorous classification of Lalo languages, based on...