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 relat ...
spoken by the
Phula people
Phula is a village in Singhpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 7,726, in 1,383 households. It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities.
The 1961 census recorded Phula as comprising 21 ...
of
Vietnam
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and
China
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.
Phonology
Consonants
Phukha has the following consonants.Pelkey 2005.
Vowels
Phukha has the following vowels.
Tones
Phukha has five tones: high , mid , low , low-rising , and low-falling .
Notes
References
*Robert Wayne Fried. 2000. "A Preliminary Phonological Sketch of Phu-kha, a Tibeto-Burman Language Spoken in Northern Vietnam," University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.
*Jamin R. Pelkey. 2005. Puzzling over Phula: Toward the Synthesis and Statement of a Sub-Branch " ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 28/2:41-78.
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Loloish languages