Thopho, or ''Black Phula'', is an endangered

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 ...

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 ...

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. There are 200 speakers out of an ethnic population of 500 speakers. It is spoken in the following two villages in eastern

Guangnan County Guangnan County (; Zhuang: ) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. The seat of Guangnan, known today as Liancheng (), was the heart of the Gouding Kingdom () that lasted approximately 400 years, f ...

, Yunnan. *Bacai 坝彩, Zhongzhai Village 中寨村, Zhulin Township 珠琳镇 *Xinzhai 新寨, Zhema Village 者妈村, Zhetu Township 者兔乡 (living alongside Zhuang speakers)

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