public_comment: "Closely related to Laomian and the Lawpan variety of Sinsali, less so to the rest of Sinsali, Cong, and Sangkong; together these languages form the Bisoid subgroup of Southern Loloish (Bradley 2007).",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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id:7478,
code_id:4023,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1,240",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "240",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "There are 240 speakers in China (Xu 2005). There are no monolinguals.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:7479,
code_id:4023,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "2,740",
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1521,
preferred: 0,
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id:9924,
code_id:4023,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "<2,740",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "In China, spoken in one village of 240 people. In Burma, spoken by 2,000 in two or three villages. In Thailand, spoken by some members in two villages with a population of 500.
Ethnic group is unclassified in China, but called Laopin locally. Classified as the Hpyin ethnic group in Burma. Usually included in the Lawa or Lua hill tribe category in Thailand.",