Language name and location: Laomian, Yunnan province, China [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 老棉语 (老缅语), 云南澜沧县和孟连傣族拉祜族佤族自治县

1. tʰi³¹

21. 

2. ni³¹

22. 

3. ʃum³⁵

23. 

4. han³⁵

24. 

5. ŋa³¹

25. 

6. kʰo³³

26. 

7. ʃit³¹  

27. 

8. hæt³¹

28. 

9. kau³¹ 

29. 

10. cʰæ³⁵

30. 

11.

40. 

12. 

50. 

13.  

60. 

14. 

70. 

15.

80. 

16.

90. 

17.

100. ʔaŋ³³ pa³⁵ 

18.

200.

19.

1000. ʔaŋ³³ hiŋ³⁵

20.

2000.

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Kitjapol Udomkool, Department of Linguistics,

Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. January 8, 2007.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Kitjapol Udomkool, 2007 年 1 月 8 日.

Other comments: Laomian has a numeral system similar to that of Pyen. The traditional numerals after four have been replaced by Tai language. More completed data needed.

Laomian is spoken by 4,000 speakers in Lancang, Menglian, Menghai, and Ximeng counties, Yunnan province, China.

Laomian (Chinese: 老緬語; pinyin: Lǎomiǎnyǔ, also known as Bisu, Guba or Lawmeh) is a Sino-Tibetan language and is a Chinese derivation of the Lahu name Lawmeh. Laomian is closely related to the Bisu language, is spoken in Laomian Dazhai (老缅大寨), Zhutang Township (竹塘乡), Lancang County, Yunnan. There are 4,000 speakers (out of 5,000 ethnic members) in central Lancang County, Yunnan, and fewer than 1,000 Laopin speakers, which may not be included in these numbers. Its language family consists of Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Ngwi-Burmese, Ngwi, Southern, Bisoid, Bisu-Pyen-Laomian, Bisu, Pyen, and Laomian.  It is mostly spoken in China in the Southwestern areas of Yunnan Province that joins Thailand and Myanmar. Speakers of Laomian that live in areas with different ethnic groups mostly speak Laomian in their home, while using the main local ethnic language in public. The average age of Laomian speakers is increasing into the sixties to seventies in areas of heterogeneous communities because children are learning the main local language. The domination of Chinese language has had a major impact on the villages of the Laomian people due to the increasing number of people who can speak multiple languages.