Alongside the "typical" polis, another form of state, i.e. ethnos, emerged in Greece.

除了这种“典型”城，腊还形成了另一种类型国家-“部”国家。

According to the official statement, the present situation is that Yi-zu is "one ethnos complicated with various languages and branches" while in 1950s the "Yi" was confirmed as the "ethnos".

「彝族」自一九五○年代「民族」确定现况，依官定说法，是「一个语言复杂而支系繁多民族」。