Richard Wordingham wrote:

> [...]
> Thank you. That certainly seems to be the most connected Yi as text
> rather than pictures on the Internet. I'm left wondering if there is
> any 'wild' Yi on the Internet. Googling for a few Yi words yielded
> nothing.

I would be quite surprised of the contrary!

Even not considering the insuperable difficulty of writing Yi characters on
a computer (ever seen a YI IME!?), I guess that the great majority of Yi
speakers are only literate in Chinese, and that they would find very funny
to use a language like Yi for things like Internet.

It takes much more than a bunch of characters, or even a couple of blocks in
Unicode or a couple of hours per week taught in elementary schools, to turn
a group of *spoken* dialects into a literary language.

--
Marco