Social:Nusu language
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Short description: Tibeto-Burman language of southwest China and northern Myanmar
| Nusu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China , Myanmar |
| Ethnicity | Nu |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nuf |
| Glottolog | nusu1239[2] |
The Nusu language is a Loloish language spoken by the Nu people of China and Myanmar. There are three dialects: Northern, Southern, and Central. The Central dialect of Miangu is the prestige dialect and is understood fairly well by speakers of other dialects.[1]
Lama (2012) observes a sound change *r- > Ø- from Proto-Loloish as a Nusoish innovation.
Distribution
The three Nusu dialects are spoken in the following locations (Nusuzu Nusuyu Jianzhi 怒族怒苏语简志 1986).
- Southern, also known as the Guoke-Puluo (果科-普洛) dialect: northern Lushui County 泸水县, in Guoke 果科,[3] Puluo 普洛,[4] Tongping 同坪,[5] Jiajia 加甲[6] (3,000 speakers)
- Central, also known as the Zhizhiluo-Laomudeng (知之罗-老姆登) dialect: southern Fugong County 福贡县, in Pihe 匹河怒族乡,[7] Zhizhiluo 知之罗,[8][9] Laomudeng 老姆登,[10] Miangu 棉古,[11] Shawa 沙瓦,[12] Zileng 子楞[13] (4,000 speakers)
- Northern, also known as the Wawa-Kongtong (瓦娃-空通) dialect: Fugong County 福贡县, in Wawa 瓦娃,[14][15] Kongtong 空通,[16][17] Youduoluo 有夺洛[18] (2,000 speakers)
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | (Alveolo-) Palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | |||||||
| Nasal | voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| unvoiced | m̥ | n̥ | ||||||
| Stop/ Affricate |
voiced | b | d | dz | ɖʐ | dʑ | ɡ | |
| unvoiced | p | t | ts | ʈʂ | tɕ | k | ||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tsʰ | ʈʂʰ | tɕʰ | kʰ | ||
| Fricative | unvoiced | f | s | ʂ | ɕ | x | h | |
| voiced | v | z | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | |||
| Approximant | voiced | l | j | w | ||||
| unvoiced | l̥ | |||||||
Tones
Nusu has seven tones:
| Tone | IPA |
|---|---|
| High | ˥ |
| High falling | ˥˧ |
| Creaky low | ˩ˀ |
| Low | ˩ |
| Creaky high | ˥ˀ |
| Rising-falling | ˨˦˨ |
| Mid | ˧ |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nusu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Nusu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nusu1239.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡果科村委会". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147895.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡普洛村委会". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147903.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡托坪村委会". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147945.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡架究村委会". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147937.
- ↑ http://www.ynszxc.net/model/index4.aspx?departmentid=1524 [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡知子罗村委会". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147913.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡知子罗村委会知子罗 达罗". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147914.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡老姆登村委会". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147916.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡棉谷村委会". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147934.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡沙瓦村委会沙瓦". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147925.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡沙瓦村委会子楞". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147924.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡瓦娃村委会瓦娃一". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147928.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡瓦娃村委会瓦娃二". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147929.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡瓦娃村委会空通一". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147932.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡瓦娃村委会空通二". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147933.
- ↑ "福贡县匹河怒族乡瓦娃村委会优夺罗". http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=147930.
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