Pyen language

Pyen
Native to	Burma
Region	Shan State
Native speakers	600 (2013)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Hanoish Phunoi–Bisu ? Pyen
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pyy
Glottolog	pyen1239[2]

Pyen (Hpyin, Phen) is a Loloish language of Burma. It is spoken in two villages near Mong Yang, Shan State, Burma, just to the north of Kengtung.^[3]

Pyen borrows more from Lahu and Shan, while Bisu borrows more from Northern Thai 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 varieties of Laos (Person 2007).

References

1. Pyen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pyen". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Person, Kirk R. 2007. A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

• http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/person2007preliminary.pdf
• Shintani Tadahiko. 2009. The Pyen (or Phen) language: its classified lexicon. Fuchu (Tokyo-to): Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.