Hpon language
Hpon (Burmese: ဖွန်ဘာသာ; also spelt Hpun) is a moribund Burmish language spoken by older adults in the gorges of the upper Irrawaddy River of Burma, north of Bhamo. There are two dialects, northern and southern.
| Hpon | |
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| Native to | Myanmar |
| Ethnicity | 1,500 (2007)[1] |
| Extinct | by 2007[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hpo |
| Glottolog | hpon1238[2] |
References
- Hpon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hpon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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 "Some hitherto unpublished material on Northern (Megyaw) Hpun."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.
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