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Nuobi (autonym: Lolbiq; lu21 pi33 or lo˥bi˨˩ in Jinping County meaning 'downriver'; Chinese: 糯比 Luobi (Lobi)) is a Loloish language of south-central Yunnan, China.
Dai (2009) reports that ethnic Hani in Yangjie Township (羊街乡), Yuanjiang County belong to the Nuomei (糯美) and Nuobi (糯比) subgroups, who number 9,000 people and 6,000 people respectively in the township. The Nuomei live mostly in Gedie (戈垤), Dangduo (党舵) (which also has Kucong speakers), and Bamu (坝木) administrative villages, while the Nuobi reside mostly in Langzhi (朗支) (which also has Yi speakers in Zhongliangzi 中梁子 ), Yangjie (羊街), and Diexia (垤霞) (including Yidie, 依垤) villages.
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary word list of Nuobi is from the Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer (1992:209–210).
Bradley, David (2001). Northern Hani Dialects. Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 34), Kunming, China, 24–28 October 2001.
Xinping County Gazetteer 1993:106, 118
Yuanjiang County Gazetteer 1993:81
Jinping County Gazetteer 1994:113–132
Dai, Qingxia 戴庆厦 (2009). Yuánjiāng Xiàn Yángjiē Xiāng yǔyán shǐyòng xiànzhuàng jí qí yǎnbiàn 元江县羊街乡语言使用现状及其演变 [Language Status and Change in Yangjie Township, Yuanjiang County] (in Chinese). Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan. ISBN978-7-100-06603-7.
Xinping County Ethnic Gazetteer (1992). Kunming: Yunnan People's Press .
Wang Liujin 王六金; Li Zhengyou 李正有. 2011. 国际哈尼/阿卡区域文化调查: 中国金平县哈尼田哈尼族罗比·罗们人文化实录. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press 云南人民出版社. ISBN978-7-222-08436-0 (Luobi 罗比 and Luomei 罗们 people of Hanitian 哈尼田, Jinhe Town 金河镇, Jinping County)