| Qiangic | |
|---|---|
| Kiangic | |
| Geographic distribution: |
China |
| Linguistic classification: | Sino-Tibetan
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| Subdivisions: |
Qiang
? Tangut
etc.
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Qiangic or Kiangic, formerly known as Dzorgai, is a language group of the northeastern Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken mainly in Southwestern China, including Sichuan, Tibet, and Yunnan.
Sun (1983) proposes two branches, northern and southern:
Sun groups other, poorly described Qiangic languages as,
Thurgood and La Polla (2003) state that the inclusion of Qiang, Prinmi, and Muya is well supported, but that they do not follow Sun's argument for the inclusion of Tangut. The unclassified language Baima may also be Qiangic.
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Below is an International Phonetic Alphabet representation of the northern Qiang language Qugu(曲谷，pinyin: Qugu)dialet consonants.
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Voiceless | Unaspirated | p | t | k | q | ? | |||
| Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | qʰ | ||||||
| Voiced | Unaspirated | b | d | g | ||||||
| Voiceless | Unaspirated | ts | tʂ | tɕ | ||||||
| Aspirated | tsʰ | tʂʰ | tɕʰ | |||||||
| Voiced | Unaspirated | dz | dʐ | dʑ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
| Labial | l | ɭ | ||||||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | f/φ | s | ɬ | ʂ | ɕ | x | χ | h | |
| Voiced | z | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ʁ | ɦ | ||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||
Shualeri (刷勒日) script