The Kangjia language (Chinese: 康家语; pinyin: Kāngjiāyǔ) is a 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 Santa language (Dongxiang).[citation needed]
| Kangjia | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Region | Qinghai |
| Ethnicity | 2,000 (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kxs |
| Glottolog | kang1281 |
| ELP | Kangjia |
 Kangjia is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Phonology
editKangjia has nine vowels.[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | ʉ | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ̈ | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɔ | ||
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t͡s | t͡ʃ | k | q | ||
| voiced | b | d͡z | d͡ʒ | g | ɢ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | χ | h | ||
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | ʁ | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | ||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b Kangjia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Hans, Nugteren (2011). Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Universiteit Leiden. ISBN 978-94-6093-070-6.
Sources
edit- Kim, Stephen S. (2003). "Santa". In Janhunen, Juha (ed.). The Mongolic Languages. London: Routledge. pp. 347–348. ISBN 0-203-98791-8.
- Sechenchogtu 斯钦朝克图 (1999). Kāngjiāyǔ Yánjiū 康家语硏究 [A Study of the Kangjia Language] (in Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai yuandong chubanshe. ISBN 7-80613-534-0.