Southern Qiang language

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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 (former Tibet).

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[edit] Southern Qiang consonants

Labial Labio-dental Dental Retroflex Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular
Voiceless stop p t k q
Aspirated stop
Voiced stop b d g (G)
Voiceless affricate ts
Aspirative affricate tsʰ tʂʰ tʃʰ tɕʰ
Voiced affricate dz
Voiceless fricative f s ʂ ɕ x χ
Voiced fricative z ʐ ʑ ɣ ʁ
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Lateral l
Semivowel w, ɥ j


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  • 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).