Phupha, or Downriver Phula, is a dialect cluster of

Loloish languages 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 rel ...

spoken by the

Phula people Phula is a village in Singhpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 7,726, in 1,383 households. It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities. The 1961 census recorded Phula as comprising 21 ...

of China. There are four principal varieties, which may be considered distinct languages: *Phupha, Alugu (Alugu Phupha) *Phupa, Phuza. Usage is decreasing apart from Alugu, which is taught in primary schools. The representative Phuza dialect studied in is that of Bujibai (补鸡白), Lengquan Township (冷泉镇),

Mengzi County Mengzi (; Hani: ) is a city in the southeast of Yunnan Province, China. Administratively, it is a county-level city and the prefectural capital of the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, located about southeast from Kunming, and 400 kilome ...

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