Extraordinary sound development of *s and *z in mBalhag Tibetan (Shangri-La, Yunnan)
This paper analyses two sound correspondences between Written Tibetan and mBalhag Tibetan spoken in Bala Village, Shangri-La (Xianggelila) County, Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan. Written Tibetan s and z correspond with mBalhag Tibetan /ɬ/ and /ɮ/, which include various conditional allophones, e.g. /...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177633 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This paper analyses two sound correspondences between Written Tibetan
and mBalhag Tibetan spoken in Bala Village, Shangri-La (Xianggelila) County,
Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan. Written Tibetan s and z correspond with mBalhag
Tibetan /ɬ/ and /ɮ/, which include various conditional allophones, e.g. /ɬ/ as [ɬ ], [ɬ x],
[t] (dental edge plosive) etc. The two phonemes /ɬ, ɮ/ contrast with /s/, /sh/, /t/, /ts/
/ and their voiced counterparts. It is also evident that s has not become aspirated
without a preinitial. This type of sound development is definitely idiosyncratic in
Tibetan diachronic linguistics. |
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