Alternate Names: Hpön, Megyaw, Phon, Phön, Phun, Samong
Dialects: North Hpon, South Hpon.
Genealogy:
Demographics: No known L1 speakers (Bradley 2007), decreasing. Southern dialect extinct; northern dialect moribund; some older people remember lexical items but none can speak it (Bradley 2007). Ethnic population: 1,500 (Bradley 2007).
Writing System: Unwritten
Nation of Origin: Myanmar