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17-504: Lahu may refer to: Lahu people Lahu language Lahu, Estonia , village in Väike-Maarja Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia See also [ edit ] Laho (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lahu . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

34-535: A " gatha that would protect them from ghosts and demons ." Lahu people used to have just a given name, until the Chinese Government gave them surnames. About 90% of the Lahu people are either named Lee or Zhang, two of the most common Chinese surnames. Lahu given names are made of two syllables: one that shows the gender and one that gives information on the day of birth, based on the zodiac . For example,

51-463: A clade ("Ni-Li-Ka") at about the same level as the other five branches of Loloish. Lama's Naxish clade has been classified as Qiangic rather than Loloish by Guillaume Jacques and Alexis Michaud ( see Qiangic languages ). A Lawoish (Lawu) branch has also been recently proposed. Satterthwaite-Phillips' (2011) computational phylogenetic analysis of the Lolo-Burmese languages does support

68-812: A computational analysis of shared phonological and lexical innovations . He finds the Mondzish languages to be a separate branch of Lolo-Burmese, which Lama considers to have split off before Burmish did. The rest of the Loloish languages are as follows: Hanoish : Jino , Akha–Hani languages, Bisoid languages, etc. (See) Lahoish : Lahu , Kucong Naxish : Naxi , Namuyi Nusoish : Nusu , Zauzou (Rouruo) Kazhuoish : Katso (Kazhuo), Samu (Samatao), Sanie , Sadu , Meuma Lisoish : Lisu , Lolopo , etc. (See) Nisoish : Nisoid languages, Axi-Puoid languages The Nisoish, Lisoish, and Kazhuoish clusters are closely related, forming

85-558: A person born on the Ox day will be named “Zanu” if he is a boy and “Nanu” if she is a girl. Loloish languages The Loloish languages , also known as Yi (like the Yi people ) and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic , are a family of 50–100 Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of Southwestern China . They are most closely related to Burmese and its relatives. Both

102-579: Is polytheistic . Buddhism was introduced in the late 17th century and became widespread. Many Lahu people in China are Buddhists. Christianity became established in Burma in the 19th century and has been spreading since. The Lahu of Northeastern Thailand had encounters with Theravada Buddhist forest monks (tudong monks) around the years 1930–1940. The leader of such a group of monks, Mun Bhuridatta , spent some time in Lahu territory. These Lahu asked him for

119-462: Is also a central branch, with languages from both northern and southern. Bradley adds a fourth, southeastern branch. Ugong is divergent; Bradley (1997) places it with the Burmish languages . The Tujia language is difficult to classify due to divergent vocabulary. Other unclassified Loloish languages are Gokhy (Gɔkhý), Lopi and Ache . Lama (2012) classified 36 Lolo–Burmese languages based on

136-672: The Laotian Civil War . In fear of retribution when the Pathet Lao took over the Laotian government in 1975, those who had helped the United States fled to neighboring Thailand seeking political asylum. A couple thousand Lahu have resettled in the United States as refugees, in the states of California , Minnesota , North Carolina , Texas , and Utah . The Lahu divide themselves into a number of subgroups, such as

153-568: The exonym Musoe (also spelled Muser ; Thai : มูเซอ ), meaning 'hunter'. They are one of 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam , and mostly live in three communes of Mường Tè , Lai Châu Province . A few Lahu, along with many Hmong and Mien and some Lao , were recruited by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to help fight against the communist Pathet Lao , known as the secret war, during

170-532: The Lahu Na (Black Lahu), Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu), Lahu Hpu (White Lahu), Lahu Shi (Yellow Lahu) and the Lahu Shehleh. Where a subgroup name refers to a color, it refers to the traditional color of their dress. These groups do not function as tribes or clans - there are no kin groups above that of the family. Lahu trace descent bilaterally , and typically practice matrilocal residence . Bradley (1979) lists

187-526: The Lahu Shi is notably divergent from that spoken by the other groups. In Thailand, Lahu Na often serves as a lingua franca among the various hill tribes. Written Lahu uses the Latin alphabet . Among Christian villages, the language has been enriched by loanwords from English, Latin and Greek via Bible translation, plus neologisms in the areas of hygiene, music and education. The traditional Lahu religion

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204-411: The Loloish and Burmish branches are well defined, as is their superior node, Lolo-Burmese . However, sub-classification is more contentious. The 2013 edition of Ethnologue estimated a total number of 9 million native speakers of Loloish ("Ngwi") languages, the largest group being the speakers of Nuosu (Northern Yi) at 2 million speakers (2000 PRC census). Loloish is the traditional name for

221-525: The family in English. Some publications avoid the term under the misapprehension that Lolo is pejorative, but it is the Chinese rendition of the autonym of the Yi people and is pejorative only in writing when it is written with a particular Chinese character (one that uses a beast, rather than a human, radical ), a practice that was prohibited by the Chinese government in the 1950s. David Bradley uses

238-664: The following Lahu ethnic subgroups. The Lahu language is part of the Loloish branch of the Lolo–Burmese subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman family (itself a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family ). Like most of its relatives, it is a strongly isolating language with subject–object–verb word order, and a set of numeral classifiers . There are seven tones , and consonants cannot close syllables. The language spoken by

255-485: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lahu&oldid=1199380956 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lahu people The Chinese name "Lahu" literally means "to drag favour from heaven" (拉, lā, "to drag"; 祜, hù, "blessing, favour"). It replaced

272-544: The older and more-offensive "Luohei" (猓黑) as the official Chinese name for the Lahu people. The Lahu are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where about 720,000 live in Yunnan province, mostly in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County . In Thailand , the Lahu are one of the six main groups categorized as hill tribes . The Tai often refer to them by

289-450: The term Ngwi , and Lama (2012) uses Nisoic . Ethnologue has adopted 'Ngwi', but Glottolog retains 'Loloish'. Paul K. Benedict coined the term Yipho , from Chinese Yi and a common autonymic element (- po or - pho ), but it never gained wide usage. Loloish was traditionally divided into a northern branch, with Lisu and the numerous Yi languages and a southern branch, with everything else. However, per Bradley and Thurgood there

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