Analysis and Research on the Tone of Yi Nuo Dialect and Sheng Zha Dialect of Liangshan Nationality

The Yi language belongs to the Branch of the Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Yi language is called mu33pi44do21 or mu33di44ho21, which means “local dialect”. Every dialect area or every place has a different tone. Among the four dialects of Liangshan Yi nationality, Yi nuo and A du dialects are very different from Shengzha and Suodi dialects, especially in tone value. The author mainly selects common words from the two native languages for comparison, analyzes the changes of their tones, and draws the similarities and differences between Yinuo dialect and Shengzha dialect. In Yinuo dialect 33 tones or 35 tones are combined with 35 tones, and the previous one becomes 31 tones. When the two syllables of key 33 are connected, the key value of the previous syllable read out is slightly lower than the latter.