Native to China Glottolog down1239 | Native speakers 14,000 (2007) | |
Language family Sino-Tibetan
Lolo-Burmese
Loloish
Southeastern
Riverine Phula
Phupha ISO 639-3 Variously:
yph – Phupha
aub – Alugu
ypp – Phupa
ypz – Phuza | ||
Phupha, or Downriver Phula, is a dialect cluster of Loloish languages spoken by the Phula people of China. There are four principal varieties, which may be considered distinct languages:
Usage is decreasing apart from Alugu, which is taught in primary schools.
The representative Phuza dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Bujibai 补鸡白, Lengquan Township 冷泉镇, Mengzi County.
References
Phupha language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA