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Lolo

Lolo

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A language spoken by Yi people in parts of China, Vietnam, and Thailand
  • noun
: lolo
  • How can this lolo good-for-nothing win again?

Examples

  • Mowtios-ek lolo.

  • Why aren't those lolos going faster?

  • Any lolo can hunt with a gun.

  • Oh... some lolo must have stuffed us in the barrel.

  • Lilo, you lolo.

  • Lafourcade fills this short novel with local color and peppers it generously with the strange language of Chilean lolos, or teenagers.

    Academic text (1990)
  • I got the idea of scaring them all, everyone inside my house (my mom and my baby sister), as their punishment for putting me in the lolo; lolo's what I call my room when she closes the door and shoves the block box against it so I can't get out.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Many Yi people in China speak Lolo, which is one of their traditional languages.

  • Understanding Lolo can provide insight into the culture and history of the Lolo people.

  • The Lolo language has a variety of dialects spoken by different groups in Southeast Asia.

Synonyms

Yi
vsLolo
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A language spoken by the Yi people in China, Vietnam and Thailand

is the same language but prefers a different naming convention
Yi language
vsLolo
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A language spoken by the Yi people in China, Vietnam and Thailand

is the same language but uses an alternative label instead
Lolo language
vsLolo
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A language spoken by the Yi people in China, Vietnam, and Thailand

is the identical concept but differs only in the naming form

Compounds

A language spoken by the Yi people in China, Vietnam, and Thailand

Lolo-Burmese
  • Specialized
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A group of related languages spoken in northern Myanmar and Yunnan, China

Lolo-Burmese language
  • Specialized
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A group of related languages spoken in northern Myanmar and Yunnan in China

Surface Forms

Lolo singular
Lolos plural

Etymology

Lolo comes from the name of the people who speak it, the Lolo also known as Yi. Just like 'English' or 'Spanish', Lolo names both a group of people and their 'language', so the speech heard in parts of China, Vietnam and Thailand is called Lolo.