Southern Qiang language
Southern Qiang is a Qiangic language of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken by approximately 81,300 people along the Minjiang (岷江) river in Sichuan Province, China (former Tibet).
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Southern Qiang consonants
| Labial | Dentilabial | Dental | Retroflex | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Postvelar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless stop | p | t | k | K | |||||
| Aspirated stop | p' | t' | k' | K' | |||||
| Voiced stop | b | d | g | (G) | |||||
| Voiceless affricate | ts | chr | ch | chy | |||||
| Aspirative affricate | ts' | chr' | ch' | chy' | |||||
| Voiced affricate | dz | jr | j | jy | |||||
| Voiceless fricative | f | s | shr | sy | x | X | h | ||
| Voiced fricative | z | zhr | zy | gh | GH | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ny | ng | |||||
| Voiceless nasal | |||||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||||
| Voiceless lateral | |||||||||
| Flap or trill | |||||||||
| Voiceless flap | |||||||||
| Semivowel | w, wy | y |
See also
External links
- Ethnologue: Qiang, Southern
Bibliography
- Bradley, David. (1997). Tibeto-Burman languages and classification. In D. Bradley (Ed.), Papers in South East Asian linguistics: Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas (No. 14, pp. 1-71). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
Categories
Qiangic languages