Hpon language

Hpon
Hpon
Native to	Myanmar
Ethnicity	1,500 (2007)
Extinct	by 2007
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Burmish Burmic Hpon; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hpo
Glottolog	hpon1238
ELP	Hpon

Hpon (Template:Lang-my; also spelled Hpun) was a moribund Burmish language spoken by older adults in the gorges of the upper Irrawaddy River of Burma, north of Bhamo. There were two dialects, northern and southern.

References

^ ^a ^b Hpon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1986). "Some hitherto unpublished material on Northern (Megyaw) Hpun." John McCoy and Timothy Light, eds. Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies: 101-134.
Yabu Shirō 藪司郎 (2003). The Hpun language endangered in Myanmar. Osaka: Osaka University of Foreign Studies.
Tun Aung Kyaw ထွန်းအောင်ကျော် Thwanʺ Oṅ Kyo' (2007). ဖွန်းဒေသိယစကားလေ့လာချက် Phwanʺ desiyacakāʺ leʹlā khyak [A study on the Hpun dialect]. PhD thesis, မြန်မာဌာန ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် Burmese Department, Rangoon university.

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[e18-1] Hpon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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