Phunoi language

Phunoi
Singsali
Native to	Laos
Region	Phongsaly Province
Ethnicity	Phunoi
Native speakers	45,000 (1995–2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Hanoish Bisoid Phunoi–Bisu Phunoi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pho
Glottolog	phun1245[2]

Phunoi is a Loloish language (or languages) of Laos. Dialects are divergent and may be distinct languages; these are Black Khoany, White Khoany, Mung, Hwethom, Khaskhong. Bradley cites six languages within Phunoi.^[3]

References

1. Phunoi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Phunoi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Bradley, David (2007). "East and Southeast Asia". In Christopher Moseley, ed. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages. London and New York: Routledge.

Further Reading

• Boute, Vanina. 2010. Names and Territoriality among the Phounoy: How the State creates Ethnic Group (Lao PDR), in C. Culas et F. Robinne (eds.), Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia. Considering the Other through ethnonyms, territories and rituals, London: Routledge, pp. 79-99.
• Kingsada, Thongpheth. 2002. Languages and Ethnic Classification in the Lao PDR. International Workshop on the "Cultural Diversity and Conservation in the making of Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwestern China: Regional Dynamics in Past and Present". Luang Prabang, Lao P.D.R.