Ponyo, or Ponyo-Gongwang after its two dialects, is a
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
language spoken in
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 ...
. Ponyo is spoken in 19 villages of
Lahe Township,
Naga Self-Administered Zone
The Naga Self-Administered Zone ( my, နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ ), is a self-administered zone in the Naga Hills area of Sagaing Region of Myanmar. Its administrative seat is t ...
(formerly administered as part of
Hkamti District
Hkamti District or Khamti District (sometimes Naga Hills District) is a district in northern Sagaing Division of Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative center is the town of Singkaling Hkamti. Townships
The district consists of the two townships ...
),
Sagaing Division
Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...
, Myanmar (''
Ethnologue''). Dialects are Ponyo and Gongwang, with high mutual intelligibility between the two.
Ponyo and Htang Ngan (Leinong) are close to
Khiamniungan.
Alternate names include Gongvan, Gongwang, Gongwang Naga, Manauk, Mannok, Ponyo, Ponyo Naga, Pounyu, Saplow, Solo, Tsawlaw (''Ethnologue'').
Dialects
''Ethnologue'' lists two main dialects.
*Ponyo (Manauk, Mannok, Ponnyio, Pounyu)
*Gongwang (Gongvan, Saplo, Saplow, Solo, Tsaplo, Tsawlaw)
References
Sal languages
Languages of Myanmar
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