Jinuo, Youle
A language of China
| Population | 10,000 (Bradley 2007). |
| Region | South Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, near Laos and Myanmar borders, east of Jinghong. Youle Mountains. 40 villages. |
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Southwestern China, reference number 6 |
| Alternate names | Jino, Youle |
| Dialects | Youle and Buyuan dialects not mutually inherently intelligible. Chinese used to communicate. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Burmic, Ngwi, Central |
| Language use | Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Positive attitude. Some also use Lu [khb] or Chinese [cmn]. Chinese used in education. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 83%. Films. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Classified as Jinuo nationality. SOV; initial consonant clusters (stop or nasal plus ‘r’); no syllable-final consonants; mostly monosyllabic words; tonal, 6 tones. Agriculturalists: rice; hunter-gatherers traditionally. Worship of Kong Ming (a Chinese hero). |
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