Phunoi (
Sinsali) 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 ...
(or languages) of northern
Laos. Dialects are divergent and may be distinct languages; these are Black Khoany, White Khoany, Mung, Hwethom, Khaskhong. Bradley cites six languages within Phunoi.
[Bradley, David (2007). "East and Southeast Asia". In Christopher Moseley, ed. ''Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages''. London and New York: Routledge.]
In
Phongsaly Province, Phunoi is spoken in
Phongxaly District and
Bun Tay District (including in Langne Village) (Kingsada 1999).
References
Further reading
*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, and
Tadahiko Shintani
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 l ...
. 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
aowo Puneiyu yanjiu 老挝普内语研究 Beijing: Science Press 科学出版社.
{{Lolo-Burmese languages
Southern Loloish languages
Languages of Laos