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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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1792332024-07-25T04:17:08Z Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? Saxena, Anju University of Oregon Arts and Humanities 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) Published version 2024-07-25T04:17:08Z 2024-07-25T04:17:08Z 1991 Journal Article Saxena, A. (1991). Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments?. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 14(1), 129-135. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.14.1.07 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179233 10.32655/LTBA.14.1.07 1 14 129 135 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1991 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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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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