Pela
A language of China
| Population | 400 (2000 D. Bradley). Ethnic population: 1,000 (2001 J. Edmondson). |
| Region | Yunnan Province, Dehong Prefecture, Luxi County, Santaishan Township; Yingjiang, Lianghe counties. Maybe also Myanmar. |
| Language map |
Southwestern China |
| Alternate names | Bela, Bola, Bula, Pala, Polo |
| Dialects | Similar to Zaiwa [atb]. Considered by some a Zaiwa dialect. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Lolo-Burmese, Burmish, Northern |
| Language use | Home. Used by half the children. Neutral attitude. |
| Comments | Classified as Jingpo nationality. The first vowel in the name is a schwa. Live among the Jingpo majority and wear Jingpo clothing. They regard themselves as different from Zaiwa and Jingpo and have different traditions. SOV; only voiceless affricates and stops; no consonant clusters; palatalized and non-palatalized series of labials and velars; nasal and stop codas; tense-lax and nasal unnasalized vowels; Chinese, Jingpo, Dai, and Burmese loans; tonal, 4 tones, tone sandhi. Agriculturalists: long grain rice. Polytheist. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
HE Lifeng; TAN, William, authors. 2004. Yunnan teshu yuyan yanjiu.
Ethnologue: Web |
Ethnologue: Print |
Bibliography |
Publications Catalog |
Software |
Email Updates
Who we are |
Shopping cart |
Site search |
Site map |
Home
Bibliography data last updated: April-2012
Contact us
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | External links
Copyright © 2012 SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics)
