Lavu language

Lavu
	Talu
Native to	China
Region	Yunnan
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	14,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Lisoish Lalo–Lavu[2] Lavu–Kuansi Lavu; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yta
Glottolog	talu1238 [3]

Lavu (Chinese: 拉乌; autonym: lɑ55 vu̠55) is a Loloish language of Yongsheng County, Yunnan, China.

Languages related to Lavu include Liude 六得, Nazha 纳渣, and perhaps Shuitian 水田, Zhili 支里, Luo 倮, Ziyi 子彝, and Liming 黎明.

References

Lavu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012:145), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lavu-Yongsheng-Talu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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