Pela
Bola; Bela; Pala; Polo; Pola; 波拉語; 波拉話
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Around 500 speakers in China and 100 speakers in Myanmar. Classified under the Jingpo 景頗 nationality in China.
2007
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24.449, 98.585; 24.184, 94.794; 24.815, 98.293
mostly in Luxi 潞西, Lianghe 梁河, Longchuan 隴川 of Jingpo 景頗 Antonymous Prefecture, Yunnan 雲南 Province, China; around 100 in the Myanmar-China border.
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mostly in Luxi 潞西, Lianghe 梁河, Longchuan 隴川 of Jingpo 景頗 Antonymous Prefecture, Yunnan 雲南 Province, China; around 100 in the Myanmar-China border.
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Zaiwa; Maru; Lashi; Mandarin; Dai;
Mandarin in official and the others in daily life
The Pela people practice exogamy with speakers of other Jingpo 景頗 languages in China such as Zaiwa 載瓦, Maru 浪速 and Lashi 勒期
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Well under a thousand
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The Pola are an exogamous patrilineal clan within the Jinghpaw/Kachin, and so all are multilingual, speaking other languages from within the cluster natively, as well as some Chinese and a local Tai language.
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from D. Bradley (2000). Data for the ethnic population is from J. Edmondson (2001).
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