Social:Proto-Loloish language

Short description: Reconstructed ancestor of the Loloish languages

Proto-Loloish
Reconstruction of	Loloish languages
Reconstructed ancestor	Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Proto-Loloish is the reconstructed ancestor of the Loloish languages. Reconstructions include those of David Bradley (1979), James Matisoff (2003), and Ziwo Lama (2012).

In later publications, in place of Loloish, David Bradley instead uses the term Ngwi based on a conservative autonym in the Sanie language.

Li (2011)

Li Yongsui (2011) reconstructs Proto-Lolo-Burmese (Proto-Mian-Yi 缅彝) based on 30 languages.

Lama (2012)

Lama (2012) reconstructs 37 consonants for Proto-Loloish (which he calls Proto-Nisoic), 7 of which (marked in green) can occur as syllable finals. The glides /w/ and /j/ occur medially.

Proto-Nisoic consonants
(Lama 2012)

		Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Alveolo-palatal		Velar		Glottal
Stops	Voiceless	p		t		ts		tɕ		k		ʔ
	Voiceless aspirated	pʰ		tʰ		tsʰ		tɕʰ		kʰ		h
	Voiced	b		d		dz		dʑ		ɡ
	Prenasalized	mb		nd		ndz		ndʑ		ŋɡ
Fricatives	Voiceless					s				x
	Voiced					z		ʑ		ɣ
Nasals	Voiced	m		n				ɲ		ŋ
Liquids and Semivowels	Voiced	-w-		l		r		-j-

• Vowels (8): /i/, /y/, /ɯ/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /ɔ/, /a/
• Tones (5): 1, 2, 3 (unchecked tones), H, L (checked tones)

References and notes

• Bradley, David. 1979. Proto-Loloish. London: Curzon Press. ISBN:978-0-7007-0128-5.
• Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan. 2012. Subgrouping Of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study From The Perspectives Of Shared Innovation And Phylogenetic Estimation . Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington.
• Li Yongsui [李永燧]. 2011. Burmo-Yi Phonology [缅彝语音韵学]. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press.
• Matisoff, James. 2003. Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction. University of California publications in linguistics, v. 135. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN:978-0-520-09843-5.

See also

• Proto-Tibeto-Burman language
• Lolo-Burmese languages
• Loloish languages