Drugchu language
| Drugchu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Region | Gansu |
Native speakers | ca. 1000? (2005)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | hbru1242 |
Drugchu (Hbrugchu, Zhugchu) is a Tibetic language of Gansu spoken by a few hundred or thousand people.[1]
Phonology
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palato-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | h | ||
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | ɣ | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||
| Approximant | l | j | ||||||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | iː | uː |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | æ | ɒː |
References
- ^ a b Tournadre, Nicolas (2005). "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes" (PDF). Lalies (in French). 25. Presses de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure: 7–56. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-03.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||