Taloid languages


Taloid is a cluster of languages in the Lisoish branch of Lolo–Burmese.

Languages

Yang, et al. lists the following languages as belonging to the Taloid cluster of languages, whose speakers are descendants of soldiers sent by the Nanzhao Kingdom from the Dali region to be stationed in northwestern Yunnan. Taloid languages are most closely related to Lalo, Lolopo, and Lipo, all of which share the lexical innovation a¹toL for 'fire'. They are spoken primarily in Yongsheng County and Heqing County. Popei 泼佩 is spoken in Huaping County, while Gomotage is spoken in Eryuan County.
Andy Castro, et al. have reported the discovery of 5 languages in Heqing County, Yunnan that are most closely related to Talu of Yongsheng County. Autonyms are from Castro. Sonaga is the most divergent, while the other four languages comprise a core subclade.
Gomotage of Eryuan County is also probably related to Kua-nsi.
Other languages that may belong to the Taloid cluster include:
Some Taloid lexical innovations are:
Taloid phonological innovations are: