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Phukha is a Loloish language spoken by the Phula people of Vietnam and China.^[1]

Distribution

Phukha is spoken near Lao Cai town; Xin Mun District of Ha Giang Province and Lai Chau and Son La Provinces in Vietnam and villages in Maguan, Malipo and Hekou Counties in China. Phula people in Yen Bai Province do not speak Phukha but speak Laghuu.

Phukha has the following consonants.^[2]

		Labial	Coronal			Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
		Labial	Plain	Lateral	Sibilant	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive/ Affricate	Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	tɬʰ	tsʰ	tʂʰ	tʃʰ	kʰ
	Voiceless	p	t	tɬ	ts	tʂ	tʃ	k
	Voiced	b	d	dɮ				ɡ
Fricative	Voiceless	f	s	ɬ		ʂ	ʃ		χ
	Voiced	v	z	ɮ		ʐ	ʒ		ʁ
	Laryngealized	v̰	z̰				ʒ̰
Nasal		m	n					ŋ
Approximant		w		l			j

Phukha has the following vowels.^[2]

Phukha has five tones:^[2] high /˥/ (/55/), mid /˧/ (/33/), low /˨/ (/22/), low-rising /˨˦/ (/24/), and low-falling /˨˩/ (/21/).

Robert Wayne Fried. 2000. "A Preliminary Phonological Sketch of Phu-kha, a Tibeto-Burman Language Spoken in Northern Vietnam," University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.
Jamin R. Pelkey. 2005. "Puzzling over Phula: Toward the Synthesis and Statement of a Sub-Branch," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 28/2:41-78.