Kullu language

Not to be confused with Kulu language.
Kullu
Kulvi
Native to India
Region Himachal Pradesh
Native speakers
110,000 (1997)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Devanagari script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kfx
Glottolog kull1236[3]

Kullu (Kullū, also known as Kuluī and Kulvi) is a Western Pahari language spoken in Himachal Pradesh.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Dental Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Pharyngeal Glottal
Plosive p
b

t̪ʰ

d̪ʱ
ʈ
ʈʰ
ɖ
ɖʱ
k
ɡ
ɡʱ
ʔ
Affricate ts
tsʰ
dz
dzʱ
c
j
Fricative s ś ħ ɦ
Nasal m s ɲ ŋ
Trill/Flap ɲ ɽ
Lateral l m
Approximant y

For the stops and affricates there is a four-way distinction in phonation between tenuis /p/, voiced /b/, aspirated /pʰ/ and breathy voiced /bʱ/ series. Thakur (1975, pp. 175–8) lists as separate phonemes aspirated correlates of /ŋ/, /n/, /m/, /j/, /r/, /ɽ/, /l/ and /m/, but describes the aspiration as a voiceless pharyngeal friction. /n̪/ is dental, but becomes alveolar if the next syllable contains a retroflex consonant. /ŋ/ and /r/ are rare, but contrast with the other nasals word-medially between vowels. /ɳ/, /m/ and /ɽ/, together with their aspirated correlates, don't occur in the beginning of words.[4] The glottal stop occurs only between a vowel and /ɳ/, /n/, /r/ or /l/, e.g. [kɑːʔɭ] "a trumpet", which contrasts with [kɑːɭ] "famine". The pharyngeal fricative /ħ/ historically derives from /ɳ/ and occurs word-finally, e.g. [ɡʱɑːħ] "grass", [biːħ] "twenty".[5]

Notes

  1. Kullu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kullu Pahari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. (Thakur 1975, p. 180), an exception is the word [ɽəbɑːɳɑː] "to throw"
  4. (Thakur 1975, p. 181)

Bibliography


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