Pholo language

Pholo
Black Phula
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Phula
Native speakers	30,000 (2011)^[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southern Loloish Pholo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`yip`
Glottolog	`phol1235`^[2]

Pholo (autonym: pʰo˥lo˥) is a Loloish language of China. Although culturally associated with the Phula languages, it is not closely related. Pelkey (2011:353)^[3] specifically excludes it, noting that it does not share the defining features of that branch of Loloish.

References

↑ Pholo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pholo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Jamin Pelkey, 2011, Dialectology As Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation

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