| Kangjia | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Region | Qinghai |
| Ethnicity | 2,000 (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2007)[1] |
Mongolic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kxs |
| Glottolog | kang1281 |
| ELP | Kangjia[2] |
The Kangjia language (in Chinese, 康家语 Kāngjiā Yǔ) is a recently discovered Mongolic language spoken by a Muslim population of around 300 people in Jainca (Jianzha) County, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai province of China. As to its taxonomic affiliation, Kangjia seems to be an intermediate between Bonan language and Dongxiang language (Santa).
Phonology
Kangjia has 9 vowels.[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | ʉ | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ̈ | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɔ | ||
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | k | q | |||||
| voiced | b | g | ɢ | ||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | χ | h | |||
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | ʁ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||
| Approximant | l | j | |||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
References
- ^ a b Kangjia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Kangjia.
- ^ Hans, Nugteren. "Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages" (PDF).
- Kim, Stephen S. "Santa". In: Juha Janhunen (ed.). The Mongolic Languages. New York: Routledge, 2003. pp. 347–8.
- Siqinchaoketu [=Sechenchogtu]. Kangjiayu Yanjiu [A Study of the Kangjia Language]. Shanghai: Yuandong Chubanshe, 1999.