"Broadly speaking, the T’rung see their language as closely bound up with their ethnic identity, but they are grappling with a growing awareness of how severely limited its use is beyond their own villages. The region’s recent development and increasing communication with the wider world have opened up differing viewpoints in the community, especially on the basis of age and gender. Current patterns suggest that language shift will take place if outsiders continue entering and altering the community at the current rate, and that even entirely T’rung villages are starting to use a language variety under heavier and heavier Chinese and Lisu influence." (p. 92)

"working to adapt Robert Morse’s Rawang Romanization system (Morse 1963) for T’rung, continuing an effort begun in the mid-1980’s (see Yue and Long 1986). So far no standard has been accepted and put into use among scholars or in the community." (p.94)