Laopa

Audio recordings: Andrew Hsiu. (2017). Laopa audio word list. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1123328

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On February 7, 2014, I met two young women in their 20's named Anh Hà and Thuyên Kim. They were on the bus from Van Ban district to Lao Cai who were from from Dồng Vệ, xã Chiền Khe, huyện Văn Bàn, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. They spoken Laopa ([lau21 pa51), which turned out to be a dialect of Laghuu (Xa Pho). The Laopa women also were highly fluent in Putonghua (standard Mandarin Chinese) and Vietnamese.