Pyen language
Pyen | |
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Native to | Burma |
Region | Shan State |
Native speakers | 600 (2013)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
pyy |
Glottolog |
pyen1239 [2] |
Pyen (Hpyin, Phen) is a Loloish language of Burma. It is spoken in two villages near Mong Yang, Shan State, Burma, just to the north of Kengtung.[3]
Pyen borrows more from Lahu and Shan, while Bisu borrows more from Northern Thai and Standard Thai. Pyen and Bisu are both mutually intelligible, since the two form a dialect chain along with Laomian and Laopin of China, and some Phunoi varieties of Laos (Person 2007).
References
- ↑ Pyen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pyen". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Person, Kirk R. 2007. A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/person2007preliminary.pdf
- Shintani Tadahiko. 2009. The Pyen (or Phen) language: its classified lexicon. Fuchu (Tokyo-to): Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
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