Lhao Vo language

Lhao Vo
Lhao Vo
Native to Burma, China
Native speakers
100,000  (1997)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mhx
Glottolog maru1249[2]

Maru, also known as Lhao Vo and Langsu (Chinese: 浪速), is a Burmish language of Burma with a few thousand speakers in China.

Distribution

Dai Qingxia (2005:3) reports 5,600 Langsu speakers in China. Many thousands more are dispersed across the eastern edge of Kachin State, Burma.

The Langsu people call themselves lɔ̃˧˩ vɔ˧˩ (Chinese: Lang'e 浪峨) (Dai 2003:3; Dai 2010:10)[3]

Langsong

The Langsong 浪宋 are found in Zaoyang 早阳 in Yunlong County, as well as in Baocun 表村, Laomo 老末, and Sancha 三岔.[4] They reportedly speak a highly endangered language that may be possibly related to Langsu.

References

  1. Lhao Vo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maru". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Dai Qingxia [戴庆厦] (2010). The Chashan people of Pianma and their language [片马茶山人及其语言]. Beijing: The Commercial Press [商务印书馆].
  4. 中国少数民族社会历史调查资料丛刊修订编辑委员会. 2009. 景颇族社会历史调查, p.57. Beijing: Minzu Chubanshe.