Sangtam language

Sangtam
Thukumi
Lophomi
Native to Nagaland, India
Region West-central Nagaland, Workha district
Ethnicity Sangtam Naga
Native speakers
84,000 (2001 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nsa
Glottolog sang1321[2]

Sangtam, also called Thukumi, Isachanure, or Lophomi, is an Ao language spoken in northeast India. It is spoken in Kiphire subdivision and Chare circle in Tuensang district, Nagaland, India.

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Sangtam.

The standardized dialect of Sangtam is based based on the Tsadanger village speech variety.

Phonology

Sangtam is unusual in having two stops with bilabial trilled release, /t̪͡ʙ, t̪͡ʙ̥ʰ/.[3]

Sangtam consonants
p pʰt̪ t̪ʰʈʵ ʈʵʰc cʰk kʰʔ
t̪͡ʙ t̪͡ʙ̥ʰt̪s t̪sʰ tʃ tʃʰ
mn ɲŋ
(f v)s (z?) ʃxh
lɹj

Vowels are /a ə e i ʌ o u/, tones High, Mid, Low.

References

  1. Sangtam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sangtam Naga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Coupe (2015) "Prestopped bilabial trills in Sangtam", Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, 1014 August 2015
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