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Pyen (Hpyin Phen) is a Loloish language of Burma. Currently Pyen is only remembered by some elderly individuals and is no longer understood by the younger generation who now all speak Shan (Shintani 2009).Kirk Person reports that Pyen is spoken in two villages near Mong Yang Shan State Burma located just to the north of Kengtung.Pyen borrows more from Lahu and Shan while Bisu borrows more from Northern Thai and Standard Thai.

ISO 639-3 code
pyy
family
Lolo-Burmese languages, Loloish languages, Tibeto-Burman languages, Hanoish languages
spoken in
Burma, Shan State

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