Laghuu language
Laghuu | |
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Native to | Vietnam |
Native speakers | 300 (2002)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
lgh |
Glottolog |
lagh1245 [2] |
Laghuu (Vietnamese: Xá Phó, Phù Lá Lão) is a Loloish language spoken in northwestern Vietnam.[3] In Náºm Sà i, Sa Pa District, the speakers' autonym is la˨˩ɣɯ˦, while in SÆ¡n La Province it is la˨˩ɔ˦ (Edmondson 1999). The people are also called the Phù Lá Lão by the Vietnamese.
Edmondson considers Laghuu to be related to but not part of the Yi language complex of China. Jamin Pelkey (2011) considers Laghuu to be a Southeastern Loloish language.
Distribution
Laghuu is spoken in the following locations by a total of about 1,000 people (Edmondson 1999 & 2002).
- LÃ o Cai Province
- Văn Bà n District
- Bảo Thắng District
- Bát Xát District
- A Lù
- Sa Pa District
- Náºm Sà i
- Cam ÄÆ°á»ng (near Là o Cai city)
- Sơn La Province
- Thuần Giáo
The Vietnam, Laghuu speakers are officially classified as part of the Phù Lá ethnic group. Some Laghuu are known as "Black Phu La," and others as "Flowery Phu La."
Phonology
Consonants
Laghuu has the following consonants.[4]
Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||||
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central | lateral | central | lateral | |||||
Plosive and affricate |
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | kÊŸÌ̊ʰ (kʰ) | ||
tenuis | p | t | tʃ | k | kÊŸÌÌŠ (k) | Ê” | ||
voiced | b | d | É¡ | É¡ÊŸÌ | ||||
prenasalized | áµb | â¿d | ᵑɡ | áµ‘É¡ÊŸÌ | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | h | ||
voiced | v | z | ʒ | ɣ | ||||
Nasal | m | n | Å‹ | |||||
Approximant | l |
Vowels
Laghuu has the following vowels.[4]
front | central | back unrounded | back rounded | |
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High | i | ɚ | ɯ | u |
Hi-mid | ə | ɯ | ||
Lo-mid | É› | É” | ||
Low | É¡ |
Tones
Laghu has five tones: high /˥/, high-mid /˦/, low-mid /˧/, low-rising /˨˦/, and low-falling /˨˩/.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Laghuu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Laghuu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- 1 2 3 Edmondson & Ziwo 1999.
References
- Edmondson, J. A., & Ziwo, L. (1999). "Laghuu or Xá Phó, A New Language of the Yi Group," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 22/1:1-10.
- Edmondson, Jerold A. (2002). "The Central and Southern Loloish Languages of Vietnam". Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics (2002), pp. 1–13.
- Nguyá»…n Văn Huy (1975). "Bước đầu tim hiểu má»›i quan hệ tá»™c ngưá»i giữa hai nhóm Phù Lá và Xá Phó". In, Ủy ban khoa há»c xã há»™i Việt Nam: Viện dân tá»™c há»c. Vá» vấn đỠxác định thánh phần các dân tá»™c thiểu số ở miá»n bắc Việt Nam, 415-428. Hà Ná»™i: Nhà xuất bản khoa há»c xã há»™i.
- http://ling.uta.edu/jerry/vietTB1.pdf
- http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/tbv.pdf
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