| Pela | |
|---|---|
| Bola | |
| Pronunciation | Pela pronunciation:[pə˧˩la˥] |
| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | 1,000 (2001)[1] |
Native speakers | (400 cited 2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bxd |
| Glottolog | pela1242 |
| ELP | Pela |
 Bola is classified as Definitely Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Pela orBola (Chinese:波拉; autonym:pə³¹la⁵⁵, exonym:po³¹no⁵¹) is aBurmish language of Western Yunnan, China. In China, Pela speakers are classified as part of theJingpo ethnic group. Pela may also be spoken in Burma.
There are about 500 speakers as of 2005.[2] The ethnic population is distributed as follows.
Yinqian (引欠, or Yunqian 允欠) and Mengguang (勐广) have the largest Pela populations.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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