Northern Qiang language

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Northern Qiang
Spoken in: Sichuan Province
Total speakers: 130000
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
 Tibeto-Burman
  Northern Qiang
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: to be added
ISO/FDIS 639-3:

Northern Qiang is a Qiangic language of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken by approximately 130,000 people in north-central Sichuan Province, China (former Tibet).

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[edit] Northern 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
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 V z zhr zy gh GH
Nasal m n ny ng
Voiceless nasal
Lateral l
Voiceless lateral lh
Flap or trill ŕ r
Voiceless flap ŕh
Semivowel w y


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[edit] 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.