Wanyä (

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: '; also called Muchi) 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 northern Laos. It is spoken in Ipoeching village, Bun Tay District,

Phongsaly Province Phongsaly province ( Lao ຜົ້ງສາລີ), also spelled ''Phôngsali'', is a province of Laos in the extreme north of the country. The capital of the province is the city of Phôngsali. Phongsaly is between Yunnan (China), and Điệ ...

(Shintani 2001).

Classification

Wanyä is a

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of the

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cluster of languages that includes

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, Cosao, Paza (Phusang), and Phana’ (Bana).Hsiu, Andrew. 2016.
The classification of Cosao: a Lolo-Burmese language of China and Laos
'. Presented at the 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium, Guwahati, India.

References

Sources

* Shintani, Tadahiko, Ryuichi Kosaka, and Takashi Kato. 2001. ''Linguistic Survey of Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R.'' Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). Southern Loloish languages Languages of Laos {{st-lang-stub