| Pnar | ||||
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| Pnar | ||||
| Spoken in | India, Bangladesh | |||
| Ethnicity | Pnar people | |||
| Native speakers | 84 000 in India (1991) 4000 in Bangladesh (2002) |
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| Language family |
Austro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | pbv | |||
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Pnar is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
Contents |
| Front | Near | Central | Near | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | /i/ | /ɨ/ | /u/ | ||
| Near-close | /ɪ/ | /ʊ/ | |||
| Close-Mid | /e/ | /o/ | |||
| Mid | /ə/ | ||||
| Open-Mid | /ɛ/ | /ʌ/ | /ɔ/ | ||
| Open | /ɑ/ |
| Consonants | Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
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| Unaspirated Stop | /p/ /b/ |
/t̪/ /d̪/ |
/t/ /d/ |
/c/ /ɟ/ |
/k/ | /ʔ/ |
| Aspirated Stop | /pʰ/ /bʰ/ |
/t̪ʰ/ /d̪ʰ/ |
/cʰ/ /ɟʰ/ |
/kʰ/ | ||
| Fricative | /s/ | |||||
| Nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | ||
| Lateral | /l/ | |||||
| Trill | /r/ | |||||
| Approximant | /w/ | /j/ |