Pyen (Hpyin, Phen; ') 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 relat ...

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 Wells explai ...

. It is spoken by about 700 people in two villages near Mong Yang,

Shan State Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the Endonym and exonym, endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. ...

, Burma, just to the north of

Kengtung th , เชียงตุง , other_name = Kyaingtong , settlement_type = Town , imagesize = , image_caption = , pushpin_map = Myanmar , pushpin_label_position = left , ...

.Person, Kirk R. 2007
''A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu''
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Pyen borrows more from Lahu and Shan, while Bisu borrows more from

Northern Thai Kam Mueang ( nod, , กำเมือง) or Northern Thai language ( th, ภาษาไทยถิ่นเหนือ) is the language of the Northern Thai people of Lanna, Thailand. It is a Southwestern Tai language that is closely relat ...

and Standard Thai. Pyen and Bisu are both mutually intelligible, since the two form a dialect chain along with Laomian and Laopin of China, and some

Phunoi The Phunoi ( th, ผู้น้อย; Lao: ຜູ້ນ້ອຍ; also spelled ''Phu Noi'' or ''Phounoi'', and called Côông, ''Cống'', or formerly ''Khong'' in Vietnam) are a tribal people of Laos, Northern Thailand, and Vietnam. They are r ...

varieties of Laos (Person 2007).

References

*http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/person2007preliminary.pdf *

Shintani Tadahiko Tadahiko Shintani ( ja, 新谷忠彦, Shintani Tadahiko, born October 1946) is a Japanese linguist and Professor Emeritus of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, specializing in the phonology of New Caledonian languages and Southeast Asian l ...

. 2009.
The Pyen (or Phen) language: its classified lexicon
'. Fuchu (Tokyo-to): Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. {{Ethnic groups in Myanmar Southern Loloish languages Languages of Myanmar