Social:Drugchu language

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Short description: Tibetic language spoken in China
Drugchu
Native toChina
RegionGansu
Native speakers
ca. 1000? (2005)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Kanauri ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologhbru1242[2]

Drugchu (Hbrugchu, Zhugchu) is a Tibetic language of Gansu spoken by a few hundred or thousand people.[1]

Phonology

Consonant phonemes of Drugchu
Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Palato-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
Affricate voiceless t͡ʃ
voiced d͡ʒ
Fricative voiceless f s ʃ x h
voiced v z ʒ ɣ
Tap ɾ
Approximant l j
Vowel phonemes of Drugchu
Front Back
Close
Mid e o
Open æ ɒː

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." Lalies, 2005, n°25, p. 7–56 [1]
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Hbrugchu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hbru1242.