Laghuu language

Laghuu

Spoken in Vietnam

Native speakers 300 (date missing)

Language codes

ISO 639-3 lgh

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Laghuu is a Loloish language spoken in northwestern Vietnam in a single village in Lao Cai Province.^[1]

Phonology

Laghuu has the following consonants.^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Velar		Glottal
		Labial	central	lateral	Post- alveolar	central	lateral	Glottal
Plosive and affricate	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		tʃʰ	kʰ	kʟ̝̊ʰ
	voiceless	p	t		tʃ	k	kʟ̝̊	ʔ
	voiced	b	d			ɡ	ɡʟ̝
	prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd			ᵑɡ	ᵑɡʟ̝
Fricative	voiceless	f	s		ʃ	x		h
Fricative	voiced	v	z		ʒ	ɣ
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Approximant				l

Laghuu has the following vowels.^[2]

	front	central	back unrounded	back rounded
High	i	ɚ	ɯ	u
Hi-mid		ə		o
Lo-mid	ɛ			ɔ
Low			a

Laghu has five tones^[2]: high (55), high-mid (44), low-mid (33), low-rising (24), and low-falling (21).

^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ ^a ^b ^c Edmondson & Ziwo 1999.

Edmondson, J. A., & Ziwo, L. (1999). "Laghuu or Xá Phó, A New Language of the Yi Group," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 22/1:1-10.