Southern Qiang language

Southern Qiang
Spoken in	Sichuan Province
Ethnicity	Qiang people
Native speakers	81,300  (1999)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Qiangic Southern Qiang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qxs

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				ɡ	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						j, ɥ	w

See also

• Qiang people
• 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).