Taloid languages

Taloid is a cluster of languages in the Lisoish branch of Lolo–Burmese.

Languages

Yang, et al. lists the following languages as belonging to the Taloid cluster of languages, whose speakers are descendants of soldiers sent by the Nanzhao Kingdom from the Dali region to be stationed in northwestern Yunnan. Taloid languages are most closely related to Lalo, Lolopo, and Lipo, all of which share the lexical innovation a¹to^L for 'fire'. They are spoken primarily in Yongsheng County and Heqing County. Popei 泼佩 is spoken in Huaping County, while Gomotage is spoken in Eryuan County.

Andy Castro, et al. have reported the discovery of 5 languages in Heqing County, Yunnan that are most closely related to Talu of Yongsheng County. Autonyms are from Castro. Sonaga is the most divergent, while the other four languages comprise a core subclade.

Gomotage of Eryuan County is also probably related to Kua-nsi.
Other languages that may belong to the Taloid cluster include:

Awu, Northern 阿乌: 3,000 speakers in Peiyuan 培元村, Shuiping 水坪村, and Yongle 永乐村 Villages of Da'an Township 大安彝族纳西族乡, Yongsheng County
Liude 六得: 500 speakers in 3 villages of Liude Township 六德乡, Yongsheng County.
Liwu 里乌: 4,000 speakers in Yongsheng County, in Liang'e 良峨 and Jifu 吉福 Villages of Xinghu Township 星湖村
Tazhi: spoken by a few hundred people in Puwei Township 普威镇, northern Miyi County 米易县, Sichuan. The Tazhi claim they came from northern Yunnan centuries ago. It is moribund or extinct, and is perhaps related to Talu, Tagu, or other languages of Yongsheng County.
Ta'er 塔尔 of Ninglang County, spoken by about 1,000 people

Some Taloid lexical innovations are:

Taloid phonological innovations are: