Khongsat language explained

Khongsat
Nativename:	Suma
States:	Laos
Speakers:	110
Date:	1999
Ref:	^[1]
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Lolo–Burmese
Fam4:	Loloish
Fam5:	Southern
Fam6:	Bisoid
Iso3:	none
Glotto:	none

Khongsat (Kongsat, pronounced as /su55 ma33/), also called Suma,^[2] is a Loloish language of northern Laos.

Khongsat is spoken in Namo District, Oudomxai province, including in Sutko village (Kato 2008).

Sources

Kato, Takashi. 2008. Linguistic Survey of Tibeto-Burman languages in Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).

Notes and References

Chazee, Laurent. 1999. The Peoples of Laos: Rural and Ethnic Diversities.
Kato, Takashi. 2018. An interim field report of Suma and Mlabri: Two endangered languages of Laos. Proceedings of the 51st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (2018). Kyoto: Kyoto University.