Choni (Jonê) and Thewo are dialects of a Tibetic language spoken in western China in the vicinity of

Jonê County Jonê County (also ''Cone'', ''Chone'', ''Choni''; ; local pronunciation: /tɕɔLn� zh, s=卓尼县, p=Zhuōní Xiàn) is a County (People's Republic of China), county in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China. Its post ...

. Choni has four contrastive aspirated fricatives: , , .

Phonology

* is phonetically a fricativized alveolar trill , and may be heard as as an allophone. * A syllable-initial can be heard as a uvular fricative before voiceless consonants and as a voiced before voiced consonants. A syllable-final can be heard as a uvular stop after or vowel sounds. * can also be heard as an allophone of between or and another vowel. * rarely exists as a phoneme, and is only attested in a few words with a palatal or alveolo-palatal initial.

References

External links

A phonological profile of Chone
{{Languages of China Languages of Gansu Central Bodish languages Definitely endangered languages Endangered languages of China Endangered Sino-Tibetan languages