Changki Ao language

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Changki Ao is one of the dialects of the Ao language. It is the smallest of the three Ao languages, the other two being Chungli Ao, the prestige dialect, and Mongsen Ao. [1] Changki has historically been considered a subgroup of Mongsen, but there are notable differences between the two; intelligibility between Changki and Mongsen may only be a recent phenomenon. [2]

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Changki Ao
Native to India
Region Nagaland
Ethnicity Ao Naga
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog chan1311

Phonology

The following phonology is derived from Temsunungsang & Changkija (2025). [2]

Vowels

Changki Ao has 4 vowels:

Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid ə
Open a

[e] is an allophone of /i/ and /a/, and [o] is an allophone of /u/.

Consonants

Changki Ao has 21 consonants:

Bilabial Dental Postalveolar Palatal/Palato-alveolar Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive pʰ   p tʰ   t kʰ   k ʔ
Affricate t͡sʰ   t͡s t͡ʃʰ   t͡ʃ
Fricative s   z h
Approximant ɹ̥   ɹ j
Lateral l

References

  1. ↑ Tzudir, Moakala; Sarmah, Priyankoo; Mahadeva Prasanna, S R (2021), "Analysis and modeling of dialect information in Ao, a low resource language", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 149: 2976–2987, doi:10.1121/10.0004822, PMID   34241137
  2. 1 2 Temsunungsang, T; Changkija, Amenla, I (2025-10-13). "A description of Changki-Ao phonology with a note on orthography". Himalayan Linguistics. 24 (2). doi:10.5070/H9.35216. ISSN   1544-7502.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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