Liha language

{{Short description|A group of Vietic speakers in Bolikhamsai and Nghe An}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Liha

|nativename=

|states=Vietnam, Laos

|speakers=unknown

|date=1999

|ref=

|ethnicity = 300 Liha (1999)

|familycolor=Austro-Asiatic

|fam2=Vietic

|fam3=Phong–Liha{{cite book |editor-last1=Sidwell |editor-first1=Paul|editor-last2=Jenny |editor-first2=Mathias|title=The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide|year=2021|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11055-814-2|page=197}}

|iso3=

|glotto=lyha1238

}}

Liha or Lyha is a Northwest Vietic language spoken in southwest of Nghe An province in Vietnam and a small trip of land in Bolikhamsai province, Laos, by a tribal group called Liha.Chamberlain, James R. (2018). [https://www.academia.edu/36591743/A_Kri-Mol_Vietic_Bestiary_Prolegomena_to_the_Study_of_Ethnozoology_in_the_Northern_Annamites A Kri-Mol (Vietic) Bestiary: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnozoology in the Northern Annamites]. [https://edit.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kyoto-working-papers-on-area-studies/ Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies] No. 133. Kyoto: Kyoto University. Estimates in 1999 suggested that there were 300 Liha and unknown number of Liha speakers at the time.{{cite book |last=Schliesinger |first=Joachim |title=Ethnic groups of Laos, Vol. 1 Introduction and overview|year=2003|publisher=White Lotus Press|isbn=978-9-744-80036-7|page=173}}