Nyang

Audio recordings: Andrew Hsiu. (2017). Nyang audio word list. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1123330

On February 9, 2014, I interviewed a speaker of Nyang or "Puzai" (pu⁵⁵zai⁵⁵) in bản Huổi Sen, xã Mường So, huyện Phong Thổ, Lai Chau province, Vietnam. My informant was a man about 30 years old who was fluent in standard Mandarin (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Nyang.

Nyang turned out to be a Northern Tai language most closely related to the Southern Qian dialects of Buyi. The linguistic evidence suggests that the ancestors of the Nyang had migrated from southwestern Guizhou.