Lama is a
Bai language spoken along the Lancang River (upper
Mekong) in
Lanping County and
Weixi County
Weixi Lisu Autonomous County
(; ; Lisu: ꓪꓰꓲ-ꓫꓲꓸ ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓝꓲꓸ ꓛꓬꓽ ꓫꓯꓽ ) is located in Dêqên Prefecture, in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China.
Administrative divisions
Weixi Lisu Autonomous Coun ...
, in western
Yunnan,
China
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Ethnologue
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'' (2009), the code lay was assigned to "Lama (Myanmar)", listed in the index of languages by C. F. Voegelin and F. M. Voegelin (1977) as a Nungish
The Nung or Nungish languages are a poorly described family of uncertain affiliation within the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Yunnan, China and Burma. They include:
* Derung (Trung, Dulong, Drung, Tvrung)
* Rawang (Răwang, Rvwang)
* Nung (An ...
language of Myanmar having 3,000 speakers. In 2013 the reference name for the code was changed to "Bai, Lama", identifying one of two Northern Bai languages, the other being Panyi Bai.
References
Sino-Tibetan languages
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