What does Ayi Niu Niu mean in Yi language?

Ayi Niuniu means sister in Yi language.

Yi language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. Nowadays, Yi language is a syllable language, and there are six dialects in modern Yi language.

Although some dialects are quite different, they all have obvious historical origins, and a certain number of Yi vocabulary borrowed Chinese elements. Yi language has an original syllable character called Wen, Shu or Luotan, Bimo and Xibo, which is generally called Lao Yi language. There are about 10 thousand glyphs in ancient Yi language, and there are more than 1000 commonly used ones. 1975 adopted the Yi language standard scheme and began to try it out in the Yi area of Sichuan. However, the traditional Yi language is still used in Yunnan, Guizhou and other Yi areas.

language feature

1, stop, stop fricative, fricative is divided into two groups. In many areas, there are also differences between the stop sound and the fricative sound with or without the nose crown.

2. Except for a few dialects, vowels are generally elastic, but there are opposites in syllables of certain tones. For example, northern dialects are only opposed to syllables with 33 and 44 tones. (3) Vowels are generally composed of single vowels without consonant endings, but Thai Subi Yi has -p, -t and -k endings. There are a few compound vowels, nasal rhymes and nasal endings in parts of Yunnan and Guizhou.