Pyen language

Pyen
Pyen
Phen
Native to	Myanmar
Region	Shan State
Native speakers	600 (2013)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Lolo–Burmese Loloish Southern Bisoid Pyen; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pyy
Glottolog	pyen1239

Pyen (Hpyin, Phen; pʰɛn)^[2] is a Loloish language of Myanmar. It is spoken by about 700 people in two villages near Mong Yang, Shan State, Burma, just to the north of Kengtung.^[2]

Pyen borrows more from Lahu and Shan, while Bisu borrows more from Northern Thai and Standard Thai. Pyen and Bisu are both mutually intelligible, since the two form a dialect chain along with Laomian and Laopin of China, and some Phunoi varieties of Laos (Person 2007). Pyen shares 36% lexical similarity with Hani, 32% with Lahu, and 31% with Lisu.^[3]

^ Pyen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Person, Kirk R. 2007. A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.

[e18-1] Pyen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Person2007-2] Person, Kirk R. 2007. A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

[:02-3] "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.

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