Laghuu language

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Laghuu
Native to Vietnam
Native speakers
 300 (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lgh
Glottolog lagh1245[2]
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Laghuu (Vietnamese: Xá Phó, Phù Lá Lão) is a Loloish language spoken in northwestern Vietnam.[3] In Nậm Sài, Sa Pa District, the speakers' autonym is la˨˩ɣɯ˦, while in Sơn La Province it is la˨˩ɔ˦ (Edmondson 1999). The people are also called the Phù Lá Lão by the Vietnamese.

Edmondson considers Laghuu to be related to but not part of the Yi language complex of China. Jamin Pelkey (2011) considers Laghuu to be a Southeastern Loloish language.

Distribution

Laghuu is spoken in the following locations by a total of about 1,000 people (Edmondson 1999 & 2002).

The Vietnam, Laghuu speakers are officially classified as part of the Phù Lá ethnic group. Some Laghuu are known as "Black Phu La," and others as "Flowery Phu La."

Phonology

Consonants

Laghuu has the following consonants.[4]

Labial Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Velar Glottal
central lateral central lateral
Plosive and
affricate		 aspirated pʰ tʰ tʃʰ kʰ kʟ̝̊ʰ (kʰ)
tenuis p t tʃ k kʟ̝̊ (k) ʔ
voiced b d ɡ ɡʟ̝
prenasalized ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ ᵑɡʟ̝
Fricative voiceless f s ʃ x h
voiced v z ʒ ɣ
Nasal m n ŋ
Approximant l

Vowels

Laghuu has the following vowels.[4]

front central back
unrounded		 back
rounded
High i ɚ ɯ u
Hi-mid ə o
Lo-mid ɛ ɔ
Low a

Tones

Laghu has five tones: high /˥/, high-mid /˦/, low-mid /˧/, low-rising /˨˦/, and low-falling /˨˩/.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Laghuu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Edmondson & Ziwo 1999.

References

  • Edmondson, J. A., & Ziwo, L. (1999). "Laghuu or Xá Phó, A New Language of the Yi Group," Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 22/1:1-10.
  • Edmondson, Jerold A. (2002). "The Central and Southern Loloish Languages of Vietnam". Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics (2002), pp. 1–13.
  • Nguyễn Văn Huy (1975). "Bước đầu tim hiểu mới quan hệ tộc người giữa hai nhóm Phù Lá và Xá Phó". In, Ủy ban khoa học xã hội Việt Nam: Viện dân tộc học. Về vấn đề xác định thánh phần các dân tộc thiểu số ở miền bắc Việt Nam, 415-428. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội.
  • http://ling.uta.edu/jerry/vietTB1.pdf
  • http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/tbv.pdf
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