Buyang language
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| Buyang | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | China | |
| Region: | Yunnan | |
| Total speakers: | 2,772 | |
| Language family: | Tai-Kadai Kadai Yang-Biao Buyang |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | byu | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Buyang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in Guangnan and Funing Counties, Yunnan Province, China. [1]
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Consonants
Buyang has the following consonants. [2]
| Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Palatalized | Labialized | Plain | Labzd | Plain | Labzd | Plain | Labzd | Plain | Labzd | |||
| Stops | Plain voiceless | p | pʲ | pʷ | t | tʷ | tʃ | tʃʷ | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ |
| Voiceless aspirated | pʰ | pʲʰ | pʷʰ | tʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | kʷʰ | qʰ | |||||
| Plain voiced | b | bʲ | bʷ | d | g | gʷ | |||||||
| Voiced aspirated | bʰ | bʲʰ | dʰ | gʰ | |||||||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | f | θ | θʷ | ʃ | ʃʷ | χ | h | |||||
| Voiced | ð | ðʷ | ɣ | ||||||||||
| Nasals | Voiceless | mʰ | nʰ | ɲʰ | ŋʰ | ||||||||
| Voiced | m | mʲ | mʷ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||||||
| Laterals | Voiceless | lʰ | |||||||||||
| Voiced | l | ||||||||||||
| Semivowels | Voiceless | jʰ | ʍ | ||||||||||
| Voiced | j | ɥ | w | ||||||||||
[edit] Vowels
Buyang has the following vowels. [3]
| front | central | back unrounded |
back rounded |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɯ | u | |
| Hi-Mid | e | ə | o | |
| Lo-Mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Low | a |
The three high vowels and the low vowel can be long.
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Li Jinfang. 1999. Studies in the Buyang Language. Beijing: Central University for Nationalities Press.
- Li Jinfang & Luo Yongxian. 2006. "Notes on Paha Buyang," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 29/1:1-40.
- Liang Min. 1990. "The Buyang Language," Kadai 2:13-21.
