Southern Qiang language

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Southern Qiang
Region Sichuan Province
Ethnicity Qiang people
Native speakers
 unknown (81,000 cited 1999)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 qxs
Glottolog sout2728[2]
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Southern Qiang is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Qiangic branch spoken by approximately 81,300 people along the Minjiang (岷江) river in Sichuan Province, China.

Unlike its close relative Northern Qiang, Southern Qiang is a tonal language.

Southern Qiang dialects

Southern Qiang is spoken in Li County (in Taoping 桃坪, etc.), Wenchuan County (in Longxi 龙溪, Luobozhai 萝卜寨, Miansi 绵虒, etc.), and parts of Mao County. It consists of seven dialects: Dajishan, Taoping, Longxi, Mianchi, Heihu, Sanlong, and Jiaochang, which are greatly divergent and are not mutually intelligible.

Names seen in the older literature for Southern Qiang dialects include Lofuchai (Lophuchai, Lopu Chai), Wagsod (Wa-gsod, Waszu),[3] and Outside/Outer Mantse (Man-tzŭ).[4]

Liu (1998) adds Sanlong (三龍) and Jiaochang (較場) to the Southern subdialects.[5]

Longxi

Daqishan

Taoping

Miansi

Heihu

Sanlong

Jiaochang

Southern Qiang consonants

Consonants are presented in the table below.[6]

Labial Labio-dental Dental Retroflex Palato-alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular
Voiceless stop p t k q
Aspirated stop pʰ tʰ kʰ qʰ
Voiced stop b d ɡ ɢ
Voiceless affricate ts tʂ tʃ tɕ
Aspirated affricate tsʰ tʂʰ tʃʰ tɕʰ
Voiced affricate dz dʐ dʒ dʑ
Voiceless fricative f s ʂ ɕ x χ
Voiced fricative z ʐ ʑ ɣ ʁ
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Lateral l
Semivowel j, ɥ w


See also

References

  1. ↑ Southern Qiang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ John McCoy & Timothy Light, ed., 1986, Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies, pp. 40, 65.
  4. ↑ UC Berkeley, 1992, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, vol. 15, pp. 76–77.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Bibliography

  • Bradley, David. (1997). "Tibeto-Burman languages and classification". In D. Bradley (Ed.), Papers in South East Asian linguistics: Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas (No. 14, pp. 1–71). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Chang, Kun. 1967. "A comparative study of the Southern Ch'iang dialects". Monumenta Serica, XXVI:422 - 443.
  • Evans, Jonathan P. 2001a. Introduction to Qiang Lexicon and Phonology: Synchrony and Diachrony. Tokyo:ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.


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