Social:Nuobi language
| Nuobi | |
|---|---|
| Luobi | |
| Native to | China |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | luob1237[1] |
Nuobi (autonym: Lolbiq;[2] lu21 pi33[3] or lo˥bi˨˩ in Jinping County meaning 'downriver';[4] Chinese: 糯比 Luobi (Lobi)) is a Loloish language of south-central Yunnan, China.
Distribution
Nuobi is spoken in:
- Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County (Xinping County Gazetteer 1993:106, 118)
- Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County (Yuanjiang County Gazetteer 1993:81)
- Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County (Jinping County Gazetteer 1994:113-132)
Dai (2009)[5] reports that ethnic Hani in Yangjie Township 羊街乡, Yuanjiang County 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,[6] Dangduo 党舵[7] (which also has Kucong speakers), and Bamu 坝木[8] administrative villages, while the Nuobi reside mostly in Langzhi 朗支[9] (which also has Yi speakers in Zhongliangzi 中梁子 [10]), Yangjie 羊街,[11] and Diexia 垤霞[12] (including Yidie 依垤[13] (Dai 2009:113)) villages.
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary word list of Nuobi is from the Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer (1992:209-210).
| English gloss | Chinese gloss | Nuobi |
|---|---|---|
| One | 一 | tʰi³³ |
| Two | 二 | ȵĩ³¹ |
| Three | 三 | si³³ |
| Four | 四 | ji̱³¹ |
| Sky | 天 | mu³¹ |
| Ground | 地 | mĩ⁵⁵ |
| Day | 日 | mu⁵⁵tʂɑ³³ |
| Month | 月 | bᴀ³¹lɑ³¹ |
| Mountain | 山 | xɑŋ³³tʰɑ³³ |
| Water | 水 | ɑ⁵⁵kʰᴀ |
| River | 河流 | lo²¹bᴀ²¹ɑ⁵⁵kʰᴀ²¹ |
| Sea | 海 | bᴀ³³mo̱³³ |
| Fire | 火 | ɑ⁵⁵tso²¹ |
| Long | 长 | mɑ̃³¹ |
| Short | 短 | mũ³¹ |
| Red | 红 | nɨ⁵⁵ |
| Black | 黑 | nɑ³¹ |
| Come, to | 来 | ko³³lɑi³¹ |
| Go, to | 去 | li³¹mɛ³³ |
| Say, to | 说 | je³¹ |
| Hit, to | 打 | dze⁵⁵ |
| New | 新的 | xɑŋ³³sə³¹ |
| True | 真的 | tseŋ³³sə³¹ |
| Tell, to | 告诉 | je³³do̱³¹ |
| Soul | 灵魂 | jiɑ⁵⁵ɬɑ⁵⁵ |
| Radio | 收音机 | tʂau³³jiŋ³³tsi³³ |
| Electric light | 电灯 | tian³⁵teŋ³³ |
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Luobi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/luob1237.
- ↑ Zhang Peizhi [张佩芝]. 1998. Comparative vocabulary of Ha-Ya dialects [哈尼语哈雅方言土语词汇对照]. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press [云南民族出版社].
- ↑ 云南民族识别参考资料 (1955), p.61
- ↑ Bradley, David. 2001. Northern Hani dialects. Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 34), Kunming, China, 24-28 October 2001.
- ↑ Dai Qingxia [戴庆厦]. 2009. Language status and change in Yangjie Township, Yuanjiang County [元江县羊街乡语言使用现状及其演变]. Beijing: Commercial Press [商务印书馆]. ISBN:9787100066037
- ↑ "元江县羊街乡戈垤村民委员会". http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=251857.
- ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=251859
- ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=251858
- ↑ "元江县羊街乡浪支村民委员会". http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=251862.
- ↑ "元江县羊街乡浪支村民委员会中良子". http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=252257.
- ↑ "元江县羊街乡羊街村民委员会". http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=251861.
- ↑ "元江县羊街乡垤霞村民委员会". http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=251860.
- ↑ "元江县羊街乡垤霞村民委员会依垤". http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=252243.
- Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer [新平彝族傣族自治县民族志] (1992). Kunming: Yunnan People's Press [云南民族出版社].
- 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. ISBN:978-7-222-08436-0 (Luobi 罗比 and Luomei 罗们 people of Hanitian 哈尼田, Jinhe Town 金河镇, Jinping County)
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