Southeastern Loloish languages

The Southeastern Loloish languages, also known as Southeastern Ngwi, are a branch of the Loloish languages. In Lama's (2012) classification, it is called "Axi-Puoid", which forms the Nisoish branch together with the "Nisoid" ("Nisu–Lope") (Northern Loloish) languages.
Languages.
Southeastern Yi is one of the six Yi languages ("fangyan" 方言) officially recognized by the Chinese government. Sani 撒尼 is the officially recognized literary standard for Southeastern Yi. Pelkey (2011) considers Southern Yi (Nisu 尼苏) to be another officially recognized Yi "fangyan" 方言 that belongs to Southeastern Loloish.
Pelkey (2011).
Jamin Pelkey (2011) lists the following languages in Southeastern Ngwi (Southeastern Loloish). Four branches of Southeastern Loloish are recognized, namely "Nisu", "Sani–Azha", "Highland Phula", and "Riverine Phula".
Pelkey (2011b) contains a comparative word list of Phola (Upriver Phula), Phuza (Downriver Phula), Muji (Highland Phula), Phowa (Highland Phula), and Azha.
Bradley (2007) had classified Sani, Axi, Azhe, and Azha as forming a "Southeastern Central" subgroup of Central Loloish, but Pelkey (2011) reclassified them as Southeastern Loloish rather than Central Loloish languages.
Also, Pelkey (2011) notes that "Southeastern Ngwi" may be most closely related to "Northern Ngwi" (including Nosu and Nasu), which is in line with Lama's (2012) proposal of a Nisoish clade.
Other languages.
Pelkey (2011:353) specifically excludes Pholo, noting that although it has been closely associated with speakers of Southeastern Ngwi languages historically, it does not share the defining features of the branch.
Pelkey (2011) classifies Nyisu of Shilin County as belonging to the Nisu language cluster, but notes that this classification is in need of further formal evidence. Bradley (2007), however, classifies Nyisu of Kunming as being most closely related to Suondi Yi. It is not known whether Nyisu of Kunming and Nyisu of Shilin County are related or not.
"Ethnologue" classifies Ache as a Southeastern Loloish language. However, Ache has not been analyzed in classifications of Southeastern Loloish by Pelkey (2011) and Lama (2012), and hence remains unclassified within the Southeastern Loloish branch.
Pelkey (2011:431) suggests that the Xiqi, Ati, and Long languages of Huaning County may be Southeastern Loloish languages.
It is uncertain if Zhayipo 扎依颇 ("") of Mile County is a Southeastern Loloish language or not.
Innovations.
Pelkey (2011:356-365) lists the following four mergers from Proto-Ngwi as Southeastern Ngwi innovations.
Another Southeastern Ngwi lexical innovation is that of ‘bat’, which is compounded from *b-yam¹ (‘to fly’) and *wa² (‘person’), literally meaning ‘flyer’ (Pelkey 2011:375).
Chen (1985).
Chen, et al. (1985) also recognizes a similar group called "Southeastern Yi" (彝语东南部方言), which includes the following dialects.
Chen (2010).
In Chen (2010), Southeastern Loloish called "Nesu" (聂苏方言). Also listed are the counties where each respective dialect is spoken.
Demographics.
The following demographics of Southeastern Loloish languages are from Pelkey (2011).
The following datapoints (i.e., sample locations) for Phula languages are from Pelkey (2011:26-27).