Khün language
| Khun | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /tai kʰɯn/ |
| Native to | Burma (Shan State), Thailand |
| Region | Kengtung |
Native speakers | unknown (100,000 cited 1990)[1] |
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Tai–Kadai
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| Tai Tham script, Thai script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kkh |
| Glottolog |
khun1259[2] |
Khün, or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: Dai Kun, /tai kʰɯn/; Thai: ไทเขิน Thai pronunciation: [tʰaj kʰɤ̌ːn]), is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung, Shan state, Myanmar.[3] It is a Tai language, closely related to Thai and Lao.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar / palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | [m] | [n] | [ɲ] | [ŋ] | |
| Plosives and affricates |
[pʰ] | [tʰ] | [tɕʰ] | [kʰ] | |
| [p] | [t] | [tɕ] | [k] | [ʔ]* | |
| [b] | |||||
| Fricative | [f] | [s] | [h] | ||
| Trill | [r]** | ||||
| Approximant | [l] | [j] | [w] |
- * The glottal plosive is implied after a short vowel without final, or silent before a vowel.
- ** The [r] is often used with Sankrit and Pali loanwords.
See also
References
- ↑ Khun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Khun". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ bloggang.com (thai)
- Owen, R. Wyn. 2012. "A tonal analysis of contemporary Tai Khuen varieties". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) 5:12-31.
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