Sangtam language
| Sangtam | |
|---|---|
| Thukumi | |
| Lophomi | |
| Native to | Nagaland, India |
| Region | West-central Nagaland, Workha district |
| Ethnicity | Sangtam Naga |
Native speakers | 84,000 (2001 census)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nsa |
| Glottolog |
sang1321[2] |
Sangtam, or Thukumi, is an Ao language spoken in northeast India.
Sangtam is unusual in having two stops with bilabial trilled release, /t̪͡ʙ, t̪͡ʙ̥ʰ/.[3]
| p pʰ | t̪ t̪ʰ | ʈʵ ʈʵʰ | c cʰ | k kʰ | ʔ |
| t̪͡ʙ t̪͡ʙ̥ʰ | t̪s t̪sʰ | tʃ tʃʰ | |||
| m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| (f v) | s (z?) | ʃ | x | h | |
| l | ɹ | j |
Vowels are /a ə e i ʌ o u/, tones High, Mid, Low.
References
- ↑ Sangtam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sangtam Naga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Coupe (2015) "Prestopped bilabial trills in Sangtam", Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, 10–14 August 2015
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