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Ethnologue report for language code:bii |
 | | Speakers view Bisu as an important link to their culture and hope to preserve it. |
| | Bisu in Menghai County are called 'Laopin' or 'Pin'; they call themselves 'Mbisu'; those in Lancang and Menglian are called 'Laomian'; those in Thailand call themselves 'Bisu', 'Misu', or 'Mbi'. |
| | SVO; simple syllable structure; certain obstruent onsets may be prenasalized, aspirated, or palatalized, but otherwise no consonant clusters; syllables may be closed by stop or nasal; 3 tones, tone sandhi; words have 1 or 2 syllables; modifiers follow heads; loanwords from Dai and Chinese. |
| www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=bii (283 words) |
