Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments?
It Is generally assumed among Tibeto-Burrnantsts that languages of the West Himalayish subbranch of the Tibeto-Burman language family are not tonal. The aim of this paper is to show that at least one language of this subbranch (PaTani) is tonal. PaTani (also referred to as Manchati) is spoken in the...
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2024
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| Summary: | It Is generally assumed among Tibeto-Burrnantsts that languages of the West Himalayish subbranch of the Tibeto-Burman language family are not tonal. The aim of this paper is to show that at least one language of this subbranch (PaTani) is tonal. PaTani (also referred to as Manchati) is spoken in the PaTan valley in Himachal Pradesh, India. There has been very little work done on it. and none of the published works (e.g. S. Sharma 1987. D. Sharma 1989) Identify it as a tone language. To quote D. Sharma:
The glottal fricative /h/ tends to be realized as high falling tone in a prepausal position, as in /meh/ = /me/. /ah/ = /A/ 'mouth. beak'. In Pattani tone is. however, a non-phonemic feature.- (D. Sharma 1989:31) |
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