Phukha language

Phukha
Phula
Spoken in China, Vietnam
Native speakers 13,200  (date missing)
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 phh
This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

Phukha is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Phula people of Vietnam and China.[1]

Contents

Phonology

Consonants

Phukha has the following consonants.[2]

Labial Coronal Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular
Central Lateral
Stops Aspirated pʰ tʰ kʰ
Voiceless p t k
Voiced b d ɡ
Affricates Aspirated tsʰ tɬʰ tʂʰ tʃʰ
Voiceless ts tɬ tʂ 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

Vowels

Phukha has the following vowels.[2]

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

Tones

Phukha has five tones:[2] high (55), mid (33), low (22), low-rising (24), and low-falling (21).

Notes

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

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.