Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 iii · ii
Sichuan Yi Language Nuosuhxop
Sichuan Yi is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 8.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Yi and Latin scripts.
Where Sichuan Yi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Sichuan Yi language
Sichuan Yi (Nuosuhxop) is spoken by about 8.4 million people, which makes it the 140th most spoken language in the world — just behind Catalan (8.5 million) and ahead of Mossi (8.3 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Nasu-Nosu group within the Lolo-Burmese branch.
Where is Sichuan Yi spoken?
Sichuan Yi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (8.5 million).
Sichuan Yi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sichuan Yi is written in the Yi and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Burmese, Marma and Rakhine.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 ii, ISO 639-3 iii.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.