ISBN: 9781157387800

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sui Language, Buyang Language, Dong Language, Kra Languages, Kam-Tai, Kam-Sui Languages, Qabiao Language, Gelao Language, Hlai Languages. Excerpt: The Sui language (Chinese: shuiyu) belongs to the Kradai (or Tai-Kadai) family, chiefly spoken by the Sui people in Guizhou province, China. According Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sui Language, Buyang Language, Dong Language, Kra Languages, Kam-Tai, Kam-Sui Languages, Qabiao Language, Gelao Language, Hlai Languages. Excerpt: The Sui language (Chinese: shuiyu) belongs to the Kradai (or Tai-Kadai) family, chiefly spoken by the Sui people in Guizhou province, China. According to Ethnologue, as of 1999, the total number of speakers is around 200,000. The language is known for its complicated consonant system. The Sandong () dialect has as many as 70 consonants. The language has it own script, known as "Shuishu" () in Chinese, for ritual purpose. Sui has seven vowels, . Diphthongs are. There are six or seven tones, reduced to two in checked syllables. The tones of the Sandu Sui Autonomous County, Guizhou, listed by conventional tone numbers, are: The alternate checked tone 7 is found on the long vowel. Tone 8 is somewhat variable on a long vowel, appearing in different locations either higher or lower than the short allophone, but always falling, as in tones 2 and 4. In some villages, tone 6 is two phonemes, in native words and in Chinese loanwords. In the village of Ngam, Libo county, tone 1 is low, the others as above. Consonants in parentheses were reported by the 1956 dialectology study Shuiyu diaocha baogao, but not in Li Fang Kuei's 1942 research in Libo County. (Labio-velars were not listed separately, so it's not clear if they also existed.) The laminal postalveolar affricates are not palatalized like the Mandarin postalveolars. is classed as a labial because it can be followed by a glide. The prenasalized stops have very short nasalization. The voiceless nasals are actually voiced at the end, as most voiceless nasals are around the world. The preglottalized stops are truly preglottalized, not ejective or cre. More: Books, , Tai-Kadai-Languages~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Tai-Kadai Languages, Books Llc, 1157387802, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781157387800

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters:… Mehr…

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sui Language, Buyang Language, Dong Language, Kra Languages, Kam-Tai, Kam-Sui Languages, Qabiao Language, Gelao Language, Hlai Languages. Excerpt: The Sui language (Chinese: shuiyu) belongs to the Kradai (or Tai-Kadai) family, chiefly spoken by the Sui people in Guizhou province, China. According Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sui Language, Buyang Language, Dong Language, Kra Languages, Kam-Tai, Kam-Sui Languages, Qabiao Language, Gelao Language, Hlai Languages. Excerpt: The Sui language (Chinese: shuiyu) belongs to the Kradai (or Tai-Kadai) family, chiefly spoken by the Sui people in Guizhou province, China. According to Ethnologue, as of 1999, the total number of speakers is around 200,000. The language is known for its complicated consonant system. The Sandong () dialect has as many as 70 consonants. The language has it own script, known as "Shuishu" () in Chinese, for ritual purpose. Sui has seven vowels, . Diphthongs are. There are six or seven tones, reduced to two in checked syllables. The tones of the Sandu Sui Autonomous County, Guizhou, listed by conventional tone numbers, are: The alternate checked tone 7 is found on the long vowel. Tone 8 is somewhat variable on a long vowel, appearing in different locations either higher or lower than the short allophone, but always falling, as in tones 2 and 4. In some villages, tone 6 is two phonemes, in native words and in Chinese loanwords. In the village of Ngam, Libo county, tone 1 is low, the others as above. Consonants in parentheses were reported by the 1956 dialectology study Shuiyu diaocha baogao, but not in Li Fang Kuei's 1942 research in Libo County. (Labio-velars were not listed separately, so it's not clear if they also existed.) The laminal postalveolar affricates are not palatalized like the Mandarin postalveolars. is classed as a labial because it can be followed by a glide. The prenasalized stops have very short nasalization. The voiceless nasals are actually voiced at the end, as most voiceless nasals are around the world. The preglottalized stops are truly preglottalized, not ejective or cre. More: Books, , Tai-Kadai-Languages~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1157387802

[EAN: 9781157387800], Neubuch, Paperback. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapte… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781157387800], Neubuch, Paperback. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Tai-Kadai languag.Shipping may be from our UK, US or Australian warehouse depending on stock availability. This item is printed on demand. 40 pages. 0.091<

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Sui Language, Buyang Language, Dong Language, Kra Languages, Kam-Tai, Kam-Sui Languages, Qabiao Language, Gelao Language, Softcover, Buch, [PU: Books LLC]