Phola language explained

Phola
Nativename:Pula
States:China
Speakers:25,000
Date:2011
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Lolo-Burmese
Fam3:Loloish
Fam4:Southeastern
Fam5:Riverine Phula
Lc1:ypg
Ld1:Phola
Lc2:ypa
Ld2:Phala
Lc3:ypo
Ld3:Alo Phola
Glotto:upri1239
Glottorefname:Upriver Riverine Phula

Phola, or Upriver Phula, is a dialect cluster of the Loloish languages spoken by the Phula people of China.

Phola proper is spoken by 13,000 people.

Alo Phola is spoken by 500 people in the village of Tuguozhai (土锅寨),[1] Dashuiping Community (大水平村), Lijiang Township (澧江镇), Yuanjiang County, Yunnan, where they are surrounded by Dai speakers.

Phala is spoken by 12,000 people out of an ethnic population of 13,000.

The representative Phola dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Luodie (罗垤), Wadie Township (洼垤乡), Yuanjiang County.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 元江县澧江镇大水平村民委员会土锅寨 . 2012-09-17 . 2018-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181005111512/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=251925 . dead .