What does Aunt Niu Niu mean?

Ayi Niuniu means sister in Yi language.

Yi language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. Nowadays, Yi language is a syllable language, and there are six dialects in modern Yi language.

Although some dialects are quite different, they all have obvious historical origins, and a certain number of Yi vocabulary borrowed Chinese elements. Yi language has an original syllable character called Wen, Shu or Luotan, Bimo and Xibo, which is generally called Lao Yi language. There are about 10 thousand glyphs in ancient Yi language, and there are more than 1000 commonly used ones.

1975 adopted the Yi language standard scheme and began to try it out in the Yi area of Sichuan. However, the traditional Yi language is still used in Yunnan, Guizhou and other Yi areas.

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Yi people believe that people's birth and death are closely related to various gods in nature and their ancestors. Once someone is sick, Bimo is usually asked to turn over the scriptures or ask someone to read divination. Bimo will take corresponding disease-removing rituals for the patients and treat them. Among all diseases, people are most afraid of "leprosy", "tuberculosis" and "body odor".

Calling people "lepers" and "skinny people" are the most extreme and hateful words after being short of breath, so vicious conflicts with fists and fists are not uncommon. Therefore, Yi people are most taboo to use these words in their daily life and communication, and use words such as "bad", "evil ghost" and "no eyebrows" to call "leprosy".

Use words such as "carrying bad things" and "long course of disease" to call "skinny bone disease". Use words such as "garlic and onion", "nose" and "relatives with noses" to call "body odor".