Nar Phu language

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Nar Phu
Spoken in	Nepal
Region	Manang district
Total speakers	800
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Tamangic Nar Phu
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	sit
ISO 639-3	npa
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The Nar Phu or Nar-Phu language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the two villages of Nar and Phu, in the Valley of the Nar Khola in the Manang district of Nepal.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.2 Consonants 1.3 Tones 2 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid	ɛ
Low	a	ɑ

[edit] Consonants

		Bilabial	Dental	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Velar
Stop	Unaspirated	p	t	ʈ		k
	Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	ʈʰ		kʰ
Affricate	Unaspirated		ts		tɕ
	Aspirated		tsʰ		tɕʰ
Fricative			s		ɕ
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Lateral	Voiced		l
	Voiceless		l̥
Rhotic	Voiced		r
	Voiceless		r̥
Approximant		w			j	ɰ

[edit] Tones

Nar Phu distinguishes three tones: high falling, high level, low rising murmured, and mid/low falling murmured.

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:npa
• The Nar-Phu Language & People

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