Phake
A language of India
| Population | 5,000 (Diller 1990). |
| Region | Assam, Dibrugarh District, Bor-phake, Nam-phake, Tipam-phake, Man-long, Man-po-mung, Pha-neng, Ning-gam, Nong-lai, Mung-lang villages along Dihing River; Arunachal Pradesh. |
| Alternate names | Faake, Phakey, Phakial |
| Dialects | Similar to Aiton [aio]. Similar to Shan [shn] of Myanmar. |
| Classification | Tai-Kadai, Kam-Tai, Be-Tai, Tai-Sek, Tai, Southwestern, Northwest |
| Language use | Also use Assamese [asm]. Village schools use Tai. |
| Writing system | Myanmar (Burmese) script. |
| Comments | Agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Buddhist. |
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