Lisu Nationality

Lisu nationality belongs to the South Asian type of Mongolian race. Its national language belongs to the Yi branch of Tibetan Burmese language family of Sino Tibetan language family. Its characters are divided into new and old Lisu languages. It generally believes in primitive religion.

Lisu ethnic group originates from the ancient Diqiang ethnic group and has a relationship with Yi ethnic group. It is mainly distributed in the Nujiang River and enmekai River (a tributary of Irrawaddy River), that is, the border area between Yunnan, Tibet and Kachin, Myanmar. The rest are scattered in other areas of Yunnan, India, northeast and Thailand and Myanmar.

According to the statistics of the sixth national census in 2010, the total population of Lisu nationality in China is 1261311.


Lisu Nationality Wiki:

Chinese nameLisu nationality
Residential areaChina Myanmar Thailand India
languagesLisaw
written wordsLisu language
population sizeThere are about 2 million in the world and about 1 million in China
faithPrimitive religion Buddhism Christianity
festivalThe bathhouse will taste the new festival in the broad season


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