Loloish language
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spoken by the
Phula people
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Phonology
Consonants
Phukha has the following consonants.Pelkey 2005.
Vowels
Phukha has the following vowels.
Tones
Phukha has five tones: high , mid , low , low-rising , and low-falling .
Notes
References
*Robert Wayne Fried. 2000. "A Preliminary Phonological Sketch of Phu-kha, a Tibeto-Burman Language Spoken in Northern Vietnam," University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.
*Jamin R. Pelkey. 2005. Puzzling over Phula: Toward the Synthesis and Statement of a Sub-Branch " ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 28/2:41-78.
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Loloish languages