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    Phanaʼ language

    Topic: Social

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    Short description: Loloish language spoken in China and Laos
    Phanaʼ
    Bana, Pana
    Native toLaos, China
    Native speakers
    		(350 cited 1995 census)[1]
    Sino-Tibetan
    • (Tibeto-Burman)
      • Lolo–Burmese
    Language codes
    ISO 639-3phq
    Glottologphan1254[2]

    Phanaʼ (autonym: pa55 na33;[3] also called Bana or Pana) is a Loloish language of Laos and China . Phanaʼ is spoken by 500 people in Laos. In China, it is spoken in Mengla County, Yunnan Province (Bradley 2007). It is closely related to Sila, which is spoken by 2,000 people in Laos and Vietnam (Bradley 1997). Badenoch reports that it is similar to vɛ33 ɲɯ33 (Ban Ban Sida).[3]

    Phanaʼ is spoken in three villages in Laos (Ethnologue).

    • Bopiet, Luang Namtha District, Luang Prabang Province
    • Namtoung, Luang Namtha District, Luang Prabang Province
    • one village in Houaixay District, Bokeo Province

    Bradley (2007) reports a population of about 1,000 for Phanaʼ.[4]

    Lefèvre-Pontalis (1892)[5] reports the presence of Phanaʼ in Poufang, Lai Chau province, Vietnam, and provides a word list for Phanaʼ as well.

    Numerals

    Phanaʼ (Bana) numerals are as follows.[3]

    1. tʰɯ21
    2. ŋɛ21
    3. sy55
    4. li21
    5. ŋɔ21
    6. kʰʲõ21
    7. ɕĩ21
    8. ɛ̃21
    9. kø21
    10. tsʰɤ55

    References

    1. ↑ Phanaʼ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Phana'". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/phan1254. 
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Numeral Systems of the World". https://mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/Phana.htm. 
    4. ↑ Bradley, David. 2007. East and Southeast Asia. In Moseley, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.
    5. ↑ Lefèvre-Pontalis, Pierre. 1892. Notes sur quelques populations du nord de l'Indo-Chine [Notes on some populations of northern Indo-China]. Journal Asiatique 19, 8, 8. 237-269, 129-154, 291-303.

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