Shixing language

Shixing
Native to China
Native speakers
1,800 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sxg
Glottolog shix1238[2]
This article is about a Qiangic language. For a Spanish footballer nicknamed "Xumi", see Jordi Xumetra.

Shixing or Xumi is a poorly attested Qiangic language of Sichuan and Tibet. Two thirds of speakers are monolingual.

Shixing is also known as Xùmǐ 旭米, and is spoken by about 1,800 people living by the Shuiluo 水洛 river in Shuiluo Township 水洛乡, Muli County, Sichuan, China.[3]

Katia Chirkova reports two Xumi varieties.[4]

Phonology

Consonants

Xumi features a very unusual phonemic contrast between voiceless /ʎ̥/ and voiced /ʎ/ alveolo-palatal lateral approximants.[5][6]

Nasals

Plosives

Affricates

Fricatives

Approximants

Vowels

Monophthongs of Lower Xumi, from Chirkova & Chen (2013:369)

Oral

Nasal

References

  1. Shixing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Shixing". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Chirkova & Chen (2013), p. 363.
  4. Chirkova & Chen (2013), p. 364.
  5. Chirkova & Chen (2013), pp. 365, 367–368.
  6. Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013), pp. 382–383.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013), p. 382.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Chirkova & Chen (2013), p. 365.
  9. 1 2 Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013), pp. 388–389.
  10. 1 2 Chirkova & Chen (2013), pp. 369–370.
  11. 1 2 Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013), p. 389.
  12. Chirkova & Chen (2013), p. 369.

Bibliography


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