Phula language
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Phula | ||
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Spoken in: | China, Vietnam | |
Total speakers: | 13,246 | |
Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Loloish Phula |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | phh | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Phula is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Vietnam and China. [1]
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Consonants
Phula has the following consonants. [2]
Labial | Coronal | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||
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Central | Lateral | |||||||
Stops | Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||||
Voiceless | p | t | k | |||||
Voiced | b | d | g | |||||
Affricates | Aspirated | tsʰ | tɬʰ | ʈʂʰ | tʃʰ | |||
Voiceless | ts | tɬ | ʈʂ | tʃ | ||||
Voiced | dɮ | |||||||
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 |
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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
[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.