- Northern Qiang language
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Northern Qiang Spoken in Sichuan Province Ethnicity Qiang people Native speakers 57,800 (1999) Language family Sino-Tibetan- (Tibeto-Burman)
- Qiangic
- Northern
- Northern Qiang
- Northern
- Qiangic
Language codes ISO 639-3 cng This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. 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-
alveolarRetroflex 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
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.
Categories:- Qiangic languages
- Sino-Tibetan language stubs
- (Tibeto-Burman)
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