| Phola | |
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| Pula | |
| Native to | China |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2011)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:ypg – Pholaypa – Phalaypo – Alo Phola |
| Glottolog | upri1239 |
Phola, orUpriver Phula, is adialect cluster of theLoloish languages spoken by thePhula people ofChina.
Phola proper is spoken by 13,000 people inHonghe County,Gejiu,Shiping County,Jianshui County andYuanjiang County.
Alo Phola is spoken by 500 people in the village of Tuguozhai (土锅寨),[2] 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 in Honghe, Shiping, Jianshui andYuanyang Counties.
The representative Phola dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Luodie (罗垤), Wadie Township (洼垤乡),Yuanjiang County.
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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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