Southern Qiang language

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Southern Qiang
Spoken in:	Sichuan Province
Total speakers:	81,300
Language family:	Sino-Tibetan  Tibeto-Burman   Qiangic    Qiang     Southern Qiang
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	–
ISO 639-3:	–
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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.

Unlike its close relative Northern Qiang, Southern Qiang is a tonal language.

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

[edit] Southern Qiang consonants

	Labial	Labio-dental	Dental	Retroflex	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Voiceless stop	p		t				k	q
Aspirated stop	pʰ		tʰ				kʰ	qʰ
Voiced stop	b		d				g	ɢ
Voiceless affricate			ts	tʂ	tʃ	tɕ
Aspirative affricate			tsʰ	tʂʰ	tʃʰ	tɕʰ
Voiced affricate			dz	dʐ	dʒ	dʑ
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

[edit] See also

• Qiang languages
• Qiang
• Qiangic languages

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue: Qiang, Southern

[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.
• 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).