Pnar language
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Pnar | |
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Jaiñtia | |
Ka Ktien Pnar | |
Pronunciation | /kɑ kt̪eːn pnɑr/ |
Native to | India, Bangladesh |
Ethnicity | Pnar people |
Native speakers | 319,324 (2011 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pbv |
Glottolog | pnar1238 |
Pnar (Ka Ktien Pnar), also known as Jaiñtia, part of the Khasi language[2] is an Austroasiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
Phonology[edit]
Pnar has 30 phonemes: 7 vowels and 23 consonants. Other sounds listed below are phonetic realizations.[3]
Vowels[edit]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | /i/ | [ɨ] | /u/ |
Near-close | [ɪ] | [ʊ] | |
Close-mid | /e/ | /o/ | |
Mid | [ə] | ||
Open-mid | /ɛ/ | [ʌ] | /ɔ/ |
Open | /ɑ/ |
Consonants[edit]
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | /p/ | /t̪/ | /t/ | /tʃ/ | /k/ | /ʔ/ |
voiced | /b/ | /d̪/ | /d/ | /dʒ/ | |||
voiceless aspirated | /pʰ/ | /t̪ʰ/ | [tʃʰ] | /kʰ/ | |||
voiced aspirated | [bʱ] | [d̪ʱ] | [dʒʱ] | ||||
Fricative | /s/ | /h/ | |||||
Trill | /r/ | ||||||
Approximant | central | /w/ | /j/ | ||||
Lateral | /l/ |
Syllable structure[edit]
Syllables in Pnar can consist of a single nucleic vowel. Maximally, they can include a complex onset of two consonants, a diphthong nucleus, and a coda consonant. A second type of syllable contains a syllabic nasal/trill/lateral immediately following the onset consonant. This syllabic consonant behaves as the rhyme. (Ring, 2012: 141–2)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ↑ Sidwell, Paul (2005). The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 58. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-802-7.
- ↑ Ring, Hiram (2012). "A phonetic description and phonemic analysis of Jowai-Pnar". Mon-Khmer Studies. 40: 133–175.
- Choudhary, Narayam Kumar (2004). Word Order in Pnar (PDF) (Masters thesis). Jawaharlal Nehru University. p. 87. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
- Ring, Hiram (2015). A Grammar of Pnar (PhD thesis). Nanyang Technological University.
External links[edit]
- http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-D187-C@view Pnar in RWAAI Digital Archive