Laghuu language
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| Laghuu | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Vietnam | |
| Total speakers: | 300 | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Loloish Northern Yi Laghuu |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | lgh | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Laghuu is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northwestern Vietnam in a single village in Lao Cai Province. [1]
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Consonants
Laghuu has the following consonants. [2]
| Labial | Coronal | Postalveolar / palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central | Lateral | Central | Lateral | |||||
| Stops and affricates |
Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | kʟʰ | ||
| Voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | kʟ | ʔ | ||
| Voiced | b | d | g | gʟ | ||||
| Prenasalized | mb | nd | ŋg | ŋkʟ | ||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | h | ||
| Voiced | v | z | ʒ | ɣ | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Approximant | l | |||||||
[edit] Vowels
Laghuu has the following vowels. [3]
| front | central | back unrounded |
back rounded |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɚ | ɯ | u |
| Hi-Mid | ə | o | ||
| Lo-Mid | ε | ɔ | ||
| Low | a |
[edit] Tones
Laghu has five tones [4] high (55), high-mid (44), low-mid (33), low-rising (24), and low-falling (21).
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
Jerold A. Edmondson & Lama Ziwo. 1999. "Laghuu or Xá Phó, A New Language of the Yi Group," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 22/1:1-10.
