Pyen language

Pyen
	Phen
Native to	Burma
Region	Shan State
Native speakers	600 (2013)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Southern Bisoid Pyen; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pyy
Glottolog	pyen1239

Pyen (Hpyin, Phen; pʰɛn)^[2] is a Loloish language of Burma. It is spoken by about 700 people in two villages near Mong Yang, Shan State, Burma, just to the north of Kengtung.^[2]

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)
^ ^a ^b 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.

[e18-1] Pyen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Person2007-2] Person, Kirk R. 2007. A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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