Lolo

E748953

Lolo is an older name for the Yi people, an ethnic minority primarily living in southwestern China with a distinct language and cultural traditions.

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Label Occurrences
Lolo canonical 2

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnonym
alternativeName Lolo people
Yi NERFINISHED
associatedWith Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
Guizhou Province NERFINISHED
Laos NERFINISHED
Sichuan Province NERFINISHED
Vietnam NERFINISHED
Yunnan Province NERFINISHED
country China
culturalTradition distinct customs and rituals
traditional clothing
traditional festivals
traditional music and dance
ethnicGroup Yi people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution mountainous areas of southwestern China
hasSubgroup Axi people NERFINISHED
Nasu people NERFINISHED
Nuosu people NERFINISHED
Sani people NERFINISHED
historicalUsage used in Western literature for Yi people
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
languageSubgroup Lolo-Burmese languages NERFINISHED
modernPreferredName Yi people NERFINISHED
populationGroupOf People's Republic of China NERFINISHED
primaryRegion Southwestern China NERFINISHED
recognizedAs ethnic minority in China
refersTo Yi people NERFINISHED
relatedEthnonym Loloish peoples
religion ancestor worship
traditional animist beliefs
script Yi script NERFINISHED
speaks Nuosu language NERFINISHED
Yi language NERFINISHED
status older term considered outdated
traditionalEconomy agriculture
animal husbandry
usageNote term Lolo is now often avoided as potentially pejorative
usedFor ethnic group

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yi alsoKnownAs Lolo
subject surface form: Yi people