Southern Qiang language

Southern Qiang language

Infobox Language
name=Southern Qiang
region=Sichuan Province
speakers=81,300
familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
fam2=Tibeto-Burman
fam3=Qiangic
fam4=Qiang

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.

Unlike its close relative Northern Qiang, Southern Qiang is a tonal language.

outhern Qiang consonants

ee also

* Qiang languages
* Qiang
* Qiangic languages

External links

* Ethnologue: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=qxs 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.
* Chang, Kun. 1967. A comparative study of the Southern Ch'iang dialects. Monumenta Serica, XXVI:422 - 443.
* Evans, Jonathan P. 2001a. Introduction to Qiang Lexicon and Phonology: Synchrony and Diachrony. Tokyo:ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
* 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).


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