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March 8, 2014
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1 Introduction
Yi

Wikipedia

 
See Yi royal family for the royal family of Korea.
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language|name=Yi|nativename=ꑳ'
|familycolor=yellow
|states=People's Republic of China,
|region=Throughout the Far East.
|speakers=6 million|rank=Not in top 100
|family=Sino-Tibetan Languages|Sino-Tibetan

 Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman

  Lolo-Burmese
|nation=none
|agency=none
|iso1=iii
|iso2=ii
|sil=Various:

YIC (for Yi, Central),

YIE (for Yi, Southeastern),

YIG (for Yi, Guizhou),

YIW (for Yi, Western),


The Yi people(Chinese: 彝族 Y?z?, own name: Nosu) are a modern ethnic group in China. Numbering 6.6 million, they are the seventh largest of the Chinese nationalities|56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They live primarily in rural areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, usually in mountainous regions. The Yi speak a Sino-Tibetan language.

Writing System

Yi script is used to write the Yi language.

CEG
interwiki|code=ii

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For the Confucian concept Yi (義), see Confucianism.
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Yi is an alternative transliteration of Lee (Korean name).
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yi is the ISO 639 code for the Yiddish language.

fi:Yit
zh-cn:彝族

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Yi".


Last Modified:   2005-04-13


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