Northern Qiang language

Northern Qiang
Spoken in	Sichuan Province
Ethnicity	Qiang people
Native speakers	57,800  (1999)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Qiangic Northern Northern Qiang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cng

Northern Qiang is a Qiangic language of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken by approximately 130,000 people in north-central Sichuan Province, China.

Unlike its close relative Southern Qiang, Northern Qiang is not a tonal language.

Northern Qiang consonants

		Labial	Dental	Post- alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m	n			ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t				k	q
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ				kʰ	qʰ
	voiced	b	d				ɡ
Affricate	voiceless		ts	tʃ	tʂ	tɕ
	aspirated		tsʰ	tʃʰ	tʂʰ	tɕʰ
	voiced		dz	dʒ	dʐ	dʑ
Fricative	voiced	β	z		ʐ	ʑ	ɣ	ʁ
	voiceless	ɸ	s		ʂ	ɕ	x	χ	h
Trill	voiced		r
	voiceless		r̥
Lateral	voiced		l
	voiceless		ɬ
Approximant					ɻ	j	w

See also

• Qiangic languages
• Qiang people

External links

• Ethnologue: Qiang, Northern

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.
• 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).
• LaPolla, Randy J. with Chenglong Huang. 2003. A Grammar of Qiang, with Annotated Texts and Glossary (Mouton Grammar Library). Berlin. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Evans, Jonathan P. 2006. Vowel quality in Hongyan Qiang. Language and Linguistics 7.4: 937-960.