Phupha language

Phupha
Phupha
Phuza
Native to	China
Native speakers	14,000 (2007)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Riverine Phula Phupha; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; yph – Phupha; aub – Alugu; ypp – Phupa; ypz – Phuza
Glottolog	down1239

Phupha, or Downriver Phula, is a dialect cluster of Loloish languages spoken by the Phula people of China. There are four principal varieties, which may be considered distinct languages:

Usage is decreasing apart from Alugu, which is taught in primary schools.

The representative Phuza dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Bujibai (补鸡白), Lengquan Township (冷泉镇), Mengzi County.

References

^ Phupha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Alugu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Phupa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Phuza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Pelkey, Jamin R. (2011). Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110245851. ISBN 978-3-11-024585-1.

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