Byasanese language

Byasanese
བྱ་ས་སྐད
Native to	Byasa
Ethnicity	Byasanese
Native speakers	23 million (2022)
Language family	Byasa-Silvitic Nanlho Byasanese
Early form	Proto-Nanlho †
Writing system	Byasanese script
Official status
Official language in	Byasa
Recognised minority language in	Monsilva
Language codes
ISO 639-1	Ba
ISO 639-2	Bya
ISO 639-3	Bya

The Byasanese language (བྱ་ས་སྐད; GEU: by-sa skad) is the second largest language in the Byasa-Silvitic language family and the largest member of the Nanlho branch. It is spoken natively by the Byasanese population of Byasa and is one of the nation's official languages. Approximately 23 million people are fluent in Byasanese. Byasanese is an official language of COEC.

Byasanese and its sister languages split off from the primary Shan branch of the Byasa-Silvitic family some time in the 500s BCE after proto-Monsilvan peoples who had migrated into the area of modern Byasa lost contact with their related groups in the area of modern Monsilva. The orthography of Byasanese was set in stone in the 15th century, however modern spoken Byasanese has drifted away from this antiquated form of the language.