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Phunoi language

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Phunoi
Singsali
Native toLaos
RegionPhongsaly Province
EthnicityPhunoi
Native speakers
(45,000 cited 1995–2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3pho
Glottologphun1245
ELPPhunoi

Phunoi(Sinsali) is aLoloish languageof northernLaos.Dialects are divergent and may be distinct languages; these are Black Khoany, White Khoany, Mung, Hwethom, Khaskhong. Bradley cites six languages within Phunoi.[2]

InPhongsaly Province,Phunoi is spoken inPhongxaly DistrictandBun Tay District(including in Langne Village) (Kingsada 1999).

References[edit]

  1. ^PhunoiatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
  2. ^Bradley, David (2007). "East and Southeast Asia". In Christopher Moseley, ed.Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages.London and New York: Routledge.

Further reading[edit]

  • Boute, Vanina. 2010.Names and Territoriality among the Phounoy: How the State creates Ethnic Group (Lao PDR),in C. Culas et F. Robinne (eds.), Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia. Considering the Other through ethnonyms, territories and rituals, London: Routledge, pp. 79–99.
  • Kingsadā, Thō̜ngphet, andTadahiko Shintani.1999.Basic Vocabularies of the Languages Spoken in Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R.Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
  • Kingsada, Thongpheth. 2002. Languages and Ethnic Classification in the Lao PDR. International Workshop on the "Cultural Diversity and Conservation in the making of Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwestern China: Regional Dynamics in Past and Present". Luang Prabang, Lao P.D.R.
  • Dai Qingxia. 2018. The Punei language of Laos [Laowo Puneiyu yanjiu lão qua phổ nội ngữ nghiên cứu ]. Beijing: Science Press khoa học xuất bản xã.ISBN9787030567529