Liha or Lyha is a
Northwest Vietic language spoken in southwest of
Nghe An province in
Vietnam
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and a small trip of land in
Bolikhamsai province
Bolikhamsai (, ), formerly gallicized as Borikhamxay, is a province of Laos. Pakxan, Thaphabat, Pakkading, Borikhane, Viengthong, and Khamkeut are its districts and Pakxan is its capital city. The province is the site of the Nam Theun 2 Dam, ...
,
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...
, by a tribal group called
Liha.
[Chamberlain, James R. (2018). ]
A Kri-Mol (Vietic) Bestiary: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnozoology in the Northern Annamites
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Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies
No. 133. Kyoto: Kyoto University. Estimates in 1999 suggested that there were 300 Liha and unknown number of Liha speakers at the time.
References
Vietic languages
Languages of Laos
Languages of Vietnam
Endangered Austroasiatic languages
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