Bantang (autonym: ') 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 rel ...
of northern
Laos. It is divergent within the Bisoid (Phunoi) branch.
References
*Udomkool, Kitjapol. 2006.
A phonological comparison of selected Bisoid varieties'. M.A. dissertation. Chiang Mai: Payap University.
*Wright, Pamela Sue. n.d. ''Singsali (Phunoi) Speech Varieties Of Phongsali Province''. m.s.
Southern Loloish languages
Languages of Laos
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