Shina language
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Tshina or Shina is a Dardic Language and is spoken by majority of people in Northern Areas of Pakistan. The Valleys include Astore, Chilas, Dareil,Tangeer, Gilgit, Ghizer,and few parts of Baltistan, and Kohistan. It is also spoken in Kargil and Ladakh valleys of India. There are 321,000 speakers.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
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[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Stop | Plain | p | t | ʈ | k | ||
| Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | |||
| Voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | Plain | ʈʂ | ʧ | ||||
| Aspirated | ʈʂʰ | ʨʰ | |||||
| Voiced | ɖʐ | ʤ | |||||
| Fricative | Plain | f | s | ʂ | ʃ | h | |
| Voiced | v | z | ʐ | ʒ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Rhotic | r | ɽ | |||||
| Semivowel | j | ||||||
[edit] Tone
Tshina contrast two tones, a level tone and a rising tone.
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