Phula language

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Phula
Spoken in: China, Vietnam
Total speakers: 13,246
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
 Tibeto-Burman
  Loloish
   Phula
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: phh

Phula is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Vietnam and China. [1]

Contents

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Consonants

Phula has the following consonants. [2]

Labial Coronal Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular
Central Lateral
Stops Aspirated
Voiceless p t k
Voiced b d g
Affricates Aspirated tsʰ tɬʰ ʈʂʰ tʃʰ
Voiceless ts ʈʂ
Voiced
Fricatives Voiceless f s ɬ ʂ ʃ χ
Voiced v z ɮ ʐ ʒ ʁ
Voiced laryngealized v* z* ʒ*
Nasals m n ŋ
Approximants w l j

[edit] Vowels

Phula has the following vowels. [3]

front central back
unrounded
back
rounded
High i ɨ ɯ u
Hi-Mid e ə o
Lo-Mid ɛ ʌ ɔ
Low a

[edit] Tones

Phula has five tones: [4] high (55), mid (33), low (22), low-rising (24), and low-falling (21).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. ^ Pelkey 2005.
  3. ^ Pelkey 2005.
  4. ^ Pelkey 2005.

[edit] References

Robert Wayne Fried. 2000. "A Preliminary Phonological Sketch of Phu-kha, a Tibeto-Burman Language Spoken in Northern Vietnam," University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.

Jamin R. Pelkey. 2005. "Puzzling over Phula: Toward the Synthesis and Statement of a Sub-Branch," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 28/2:41-78.