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[edit]__Gong language (phonology)__
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Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Manners (see below) | Places | |||||||
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Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
Stop | Unvoiced | Unaspirated | p | t | c | k | ʔ | |
Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | cʰ | kʰ | ||||
Voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||||
Fricative | f | s | x | h | ||||
Lateral | l | |||||||
Approximant | w | j |
- The Phoneme, those can be both Initial and Final have 3 Phonemes, such as /ŋ/, /k/ and /ʔ/.
- The Cluster consonants have 4 Phonemes, such as /pʰl/, /kl/, /kʰl/ and /bl/ those occur only in the beginning of the syllable. However, the New generation do not like to pronounced /pʰl/ and /bl/ for the Cluster consonants, but pronounced by only the First consonants.
- The Phoneme /x/ can hear only in the elder by the one word, that is /xǎʔ/ 'เข็ม'.
- The Phoneme /pʰ/ have 2 Allophones, such as [pʰ] and [f] that have the Allophones, such as [pʰe~fe] 'ไม้ (ไผ่)'. About the Phoneme /cʰ/ this sound have 2 Allophones, such as [cʰ] and [s] and those also have more practice, such as [cʰǒŋ~sǒŋ 'กิ้งก่า'. All of these, because the New generation like to pronounced /pʰ/ and /cʰ/ to be [f] and [s] by serially. But not all of system
Vowels
[edit]Monophthong
[edit]Tongue levels (see below) | Places of a Tongue | ||
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Front | Central | Back | |
Close | i | ɨ ʉ | u |
Mid-close | ʊ | ||
Mid | e ø | ə | o |
Mid-open | ɛ œ | ʌ | |
Open | a | ɔ |
- The Phoneme /e/ have 2 Allophones, such as [e] and [ɪ] by an Allophone [e] occur with Final consonant, such as [kěŋ] 'ตัวเอง', the Allophone [ɪ] occur without Final consonant, such as [cɪ] 'ม้าม'
- The phoneme /ɔ/ is [ɔ̞] because /ɔ/ is an Mid-open back rounded vowel. But the sound /ɒ/ is rarely occurrence. Therefore, the Phoneme is /ɔ/
Diphthong
[edit]The Gong language (Kok chiang dialect) diphthongs have 3 Phonemes [2] such as /i̯a/, /ɨ̯a/ and /u̯ɔ/
Tones
[edit]The Gong language (Kok chiang dialect) tones have 4 Phonemes[3] such as
- Mid tone
- Low-falling tone that maybe change to be a mid-dipping tone or high falling in negative sentences.
- High-falling tone
- Mid-dipping tone have 2 Allophones, such as "low-rising tone" that occur, when the Final consonant be a stop and "mid-dipping" that occur, when the Final consonant be the other types. Juidzi (talk) 14:43, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
References
- ^ Office of the Royal Society. Gong's writing system handbook by the Thai scripts of Office of the Royal Society. Bangkok : Office of the Royal Society, 2018, page 24.
- ^ a b Office of the Royal Society. Gong's writing system handbook by the Thai scripts of Office of the Royal Society. Bangkok : Office of the Royal Society, 2018, page 27.
- ^ Office of the Royal Society. Gong's writing system handbook by the Thai scripts of Office of the Royal. Bangkok : Office of the Royal Society, 2018, page 29.