Pyen (Hpyin, Phen; ')
is a
Loloish language
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its rela ...
of
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
. It is spoken by about 700 people in two villages near
Mong Yang
Mongyang or Möngyang ( my, မိုးညှင်း, translit=Mohnyin; also known as Mong Yang)(Thai:เมืองยาง) was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It was an outlying territory, located away from the main Shan State are ...
,
Shan State
Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos ( L ...
, Burma, just to the north of
Kengtung
th , เชียงตุง
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[Person, Kirk R. 2007]
''A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu''
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Pyen borrows more from Lahu and Shan, while
Bisu borrows more from
Northern Thai
Kam Mueang ( nod, , กำเมือง) or Northern Thai language ( th, ภาษาไทยถิ่นเหนือ) is the language of the Northern Thai people of Lanna, Thailand. It is a Southwestern Tai language that is closely rela ...
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
*http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/person2007preliminary.pdf
*
Shintani Tadahiko
Tadahiko Shintani ( ja, 新谷 忠彦, Shintani Tadahiko, born October 1946) is a Japanese linguist and Professor Emeritus of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, specializing in the phonology of New Caledonian languages and Southeast Asian ...
. 2009.
The Pyen (or Phen) language: its classified lexicon'. Fuchu (Tokyo-to): Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
{{Ethnic groups in Myanmar
Southern Loloish languages
Languages of Myanmar