Yiish

See also: yiish

English

Etymology

From Yi +‎ -ish.

Adjective

Yiish (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Yi language family of Sino-Tibetan languages.
   • 1985, Asien - Issues 14-17, page 84:

     ...maps of the following groups: Kam Tai, Miao-Yao, Tibeto-Burman including Yiish, Mongol languages, Turkic languages, and Man-Tungus languages.

   • 1985, Graham Thurgood, James A. Matisoff, Paul K. Benedict, Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area:

     It deals with syntactic change on a scale comparable to that presupposed by the ST articulation -- and in much the same directions -- that has taken place in a group of languages known in Chana as the "Yi" and in the West as the "Lolo", that form one of the major groupings in the Loloish (or "Yiish") subbranch of TB.

   • 1987, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area - Volumes 10-11, page 121:

     I believe that Anong is rather close to Dulong, belonging in the Jingpho subgroup of TB; while Rouruo and Nusu, since they are fairly close to the Yi languages, probably belong in the Yiish (- Loloish) subgroup of TB.

   • 2006, Randy J. LaPolla, Graham Thurgood, The Sino-Tibetan Languages, →ISBN, page 195:

     Both are closely related to Burmese, and with other languages, are grouped in a Burmish branch, which in turn is closely related to the extensive Yiish group of southwest China and bordering regions.

Synonyms

• Loloish