Na | |
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Narua | |
Native to | China |
Region | Sichuan |
Ethnicity | Mosuo |
Native speakers | 47,000 (2010) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nru |
Glottolog | yong1270 |
Na (or Narua, Mosuo) is a language of the Naish subbranch of the Naic group of the Sino-Tibetan languages.
Yongning Na, which is spoken in Yongning Township, Ninglang County, Lijiang, Yunnan, China, has been documented by Jacques and Michaud (2011). [2] It has three tonal levels. [3] A trilingual dictionary is available online. [4]
Lataddi Narua is notable for having only two tonal levels. [5]
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ( ɳ ) | ɲ | ( ŋ ) | ||||
Stop | voiceless | p | t | ( ʈ ) | k | q | ( ʔ ) | ||
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ( ʈʰ ) | kʰ | qʰ | ||||
voiced | b | d | ( ɖ ) | ɡ | ɢ | ||||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | |||||
aspirated | t͡sʰ | t͡ʂʰ | t͡ɕʰ | ||||||
voiced | d͡z | d͡ʐ | d͡ʑ | ||||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʂ | ɕ | ( x ) | h | ||
voiced | ( v ) | z | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ( ʁ ) | |||
Lateral | fricative | ɬ | |||||||
glide | l | ( ɭ ) | |||||||
Approximant | w | j |
Front | Central | Back | ||
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Close | i | ɯ | u | |
Mid | ɛ | ə | ɤ | ɔ |
Open | æ , æ̃ | ɑ | ||
Syllabic | v̩ |
Narua's default word order is agent–object–verb, although expression of all verb arguments is not obligatory.
Narua marks sentence topics with jjo/dʑo˥/ after a topicalized clause or noun phrase.
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