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Revision as of 08:58, 19 February 2008

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Phula is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Vietnam and China. [1]

Phonology

Consonants

Phula has the following consonants. [2]

Labial Coronal Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular
Stop: voiceless p t k
Stop: voiceless, aspirated
Stop: voiced b d g
Fricative: voiceless f s ʂ ʃ χ
Fricative: voiceless, lateral ɬ
Fricative: voiced v z ʐ ʒ ʁ
Fricative: voiced, laryngealized v* z* ʒ*
Fricative: voiced, lateral ɮ
Affricate: voiceless ts ʈʂ
Affricate: voiceless, aspirated tsʰ ʈʂʰ tʃʰ
Affricate: voiceless, lateral release
Affricate: voiceless, lateral release, aspirated tɬʰ
Affricate: voiced, lateral release
Nasal m n ŋ
Lateral l
Semivowel w j

Vowels

Phula has the following vowels. [3]

front central back
unrounded
back
rounded
High i ɨ ɯ u
Hi-Mid e ə o
Lo-Mid ε ʌ ɔ
Low a

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. ^ Pelkey 2005.
  3. ^ Pelkey 2005.

References

Robert Wayne Fried. 2000. "A Preliminary Phonological Sketch of Phu-kha, a Tibeto-Burman Language Spoken in Northern Vietnam," University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.

Jamin R. Pelkey. 2005. "Puzzling over Phula: Toward the Synthesis and Statement of a Sub-Branch," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 28/2:41-78.