Hpon language

Hpon (Burmese: ဖွန်းဘာသာ; also spelt Hpun) is a moribund Burmish language spoken by older adults in the gorges of the upper Irrawaddy River of Burma, north of Bhamo. There are two dialects, northern and southern.

Hpon
Native to	Myanmar
Ethnicity	1,500 (2007)[1]
Extinct	by 2007[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Burmish Burmic Hpon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hpo
Glottolog	hpon1238
ELP	Hpon[2]

References

1. Hpon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Endangered Languages Project data for Hpon.

• Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1986). "Some hitherto unpublished material on Northern (Megyaw) Hpun." John McCoy and Timothy Light, eds. Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies: 101-134.
• Yabu Shirō 藪 司郎 (2003). The Hpun language endangered in Myanmar. Osaka: Osaka University of Foreign Studies.
• Tun Aung Kyaw ထွန်အေင်ကျော် Thwanʺ Oṅ Kyo' (2007). ဖွန်းဒေသိယစကားလေ့လာချက် Phwanʺ desiyacakāʺ leʹlā khyak [A study on the Hpun dialect]. PhD thesis, မြန်မာဌာန ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် Burmese Department, Rangoon university.