Northern Qiang language
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Northern Qiang language
| Northern Qiang | ||||
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| Spoken in | Sichuan Province | |||
| Ethnicity | Qiang people | |||
| Native speakers | 57,800 (1999) | |||
| Language family |
Sino-Tibetan
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| ISO 639-3 | cng | |||
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Northern Qiang is a Qiangic language of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken by approximately 130,000 people in north-central Sichuan Province, China.
Unlike its close relative Southern Qiang, Northern Qiang is not a tonal language.
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Northern Qiang consonants
| Labial | Dental | Post- alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | q | ||||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | qʰ | |||||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | tʂ | tɕ | ||||
| aspirated | tsʰ | tʃʰ | tʂʰ | tɕʰ | |||||
| voiced | dz | dʒ | dʐ | dʑ | |||||
| Fricative | voiced | β | z | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʁ | ||
| voiceless | ɸ | s | ʂ | ɕ | x | χ | h | ||
| Trill | voiced | r | |||||||
| voiceless | r̥ | ||||||||
| Lateral | voiced | l | |||||||
| voiceless | ɬ | ||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | ||||||
See also
References
External links
- Ethnologue: Qiang, Northern
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).
- LaPolla, Randy J. with Chenglong Huang. 2003. A Grammar of Qiang, with Annotated Texts and Glossary (Mouton Grammar Library). Berlin. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Evans, Jonathan P. 2006. Vowel quality in Hongyan Qiang. Language and Linguistics 7.4: 937-960.
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