Southern Qiang
Spoken in Sichuan Province
Total speakers 81,300
Language family Sino-Tibetan

• (Tibeto-Burman)
  • Qiangic
    • Southern
      • Southern Qiang

Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2 –
ISO 639-3 qxs
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Southern Qiang is a Qiangic language of the Tibeto-Burman language family 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 consonants

Labial Labio-dental Dental Retroflex Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular
Voiceless stop p t k q
Aspirated stop pʰ tʰ kʰ qʰ
Voiced stop b d g ɢ
Voiceless affricate ts tʂ tʃ tɕ
Aspirative 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 w, ɥ j

See also

• Qiang languages
• Qiang
• Qiangic languages

External links

• Ethnologue: Qiang, Southern

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.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).

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