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:	—
ISO 639-3:	—
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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 (former Tibet).

Contents 1 Northern Qiang consonants 2 See also 3 External links 4 Bibliography

[edit] Northern Qiang consonants

	Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Voiceless stop	p	t				k	q
Aspirated stop	pʰ	tʰ				kʰ	qʰ
Voiced stop	b	d				g
Voiceless affricate		ts	tʂ	tʃ	tɕ
Aspirative affricate		tsʰ	tʂʰ	tʃʰ	tɕʰ
Voiced affricate		dz	dʐ	dʒ	dʑ
Voiceless fricative	ɸ	s	ʂ		ɕ	x	χ	h
Voiced fricative	β	z	ʐ		ʑ	ɣ	ʁ
Nasal	m	n			ɲ	ŋ
Lateral		l
Voiceless lateral		ɬ
Flap or trill		r	ɻ
Voiceless flap		r̥
Semivowel	w				j

[edit] See also

• Qiang languages
• Qiang

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue: Qiang, Northern

[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.