Pyen language

{{Short description|Loloish language of Myanmar}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Pyen

|altname=Phen

|states=Myanmar

|region=Shan State

|speakers=600

|date=2013

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Lolo–Burmese

|fam4=Loloish

|fam5=Southern

|fam6=Bisoid

|iso3=pyy

|glotto=pyen1239

|glottorefname=Pyen

}}

Pyen (Hpyin, Phen; {{IPA|pʰɛn}}) 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.Person, Kirk R. 2007. [http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/person2007preliminary.pdf A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu]. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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.{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Myanmar |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |archive-date=2016-10-10 |website=Ethnologue: Languages of the World}}