Lhaovo (the Burmese name: လော်ဝေါ်), also known as Maru (မရူ) and Langsu (the Chinese name: 浪速), is a Burmish language spoken in Burma and by a few thousand speakers in China.
The Langsu people call themselves lɔ̃³¹vɔ³¹ (Chinese: Lang'e 浪峨)[2][3] The standard Lhaovo dialect is that of the Dago’ (tăkoʔ) hill area, on the east side of N'Mai River valley in Kachin State.
[4] The Langsong (浪宋) are found in Zaoyang (早阳)[5] in Yunlong County (in the Chinese province of Yunnan) as well as in Baocun (表村),[6] Laomo (老末), and Sancha (三岔).
[7][8] They reportedly speak a highly endangered language that may be possibly related to Langsu.
Lhao Vo has the following consonant sounds:[9] There is a distinction among creaky vowel sounds:[9] When preceding a final glide /-j/, each vowel has the following allophones: Lhao Vo has three lexical tones: high, low and falling.