Nar Phu language
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| Nar Phu | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Nepal | |
| Region: | Manang district | |
| Total speakers: | 800 | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Himalayish Tibeto-Kanauri Tibetic Tamangic Nar Phu |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sit | |
| ISO 639-3: | npa | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Nar Phu or Nar-Phu language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the two villages of Nar and Phu, in the Valley of the Nar Khola in the Manang district of Nepal.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | |
| Low | a | ɑ |
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Retroflex | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Unaspirated | p | t | ʈ | k | |
| Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | ||
| Affricate | Unaspirated | ts | tɕ | |||
| Aspirated | tsʰ | tɕʰ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ɕ | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Lateral | Voiced | l | ||||
| Voiceless | l̥ | |||||
| Rhotic | Voiced | r | ||||
| Voiceless | r̥ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɰ | |||
[edit] Tones
Nar Phu distinguishes three tones: high falling, high level, low rising murmured, and mid/low falling murmured.
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