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Rengwa
རེ་ངྐཝ་ཉ
[ɹɛŋkɥɑɲɑ̂]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 22 June 2020
Language type A posteriori
Species Human/humanoid
About Rengwa Rengwa (རེ་ངྐཝ་ཉ) is a Turkic language spoken by about 3,000 Rengba (རེང་བ) people in Amdo County, Tibet, around Qiangma. It is thought that the Rengba people originate from Turks from the Uyghur Khaganate captured in the 9th century by the Tibetan Empire who were resettled in the Tibetan plateau. Due to extensive contact with the Classical Tibetan language, Rengwa has had significant Tibetan influence over its phonology and grammar, as well as Buddhist influence over vocabulary. As such Rengwa is has diverged notably from other Turkic languages and is not mutually intelligible. This also makes Rengwa hard for linguists to classify in the Turkic language family.

Because the Rengba have mostly kept to themselves and have lived for hundreds of years in secluded communities, they have not assimilated with the Tibetan people and have remained a distinct ethnic group.

Grammatical features:

- Nom-Acc, agglutinating, SOV, head-initial
- Pitch-accent system
- Vowel harmony (rounded harmony not indicated in the orthography)
- 7 cases (NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument
, ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient
, GENGenitive (case)
possessive
, OBLOblique (argument)
indirect or demoted object
, ABLAblative (case)
away from
, ALLAllative (case)
'to, onto'
, ASSCAssociative case (case)
relating to, associated with
), 2 numbers
- Volitional/non-volitional verb paradigm distinction
- Present/Past/Future/Imperative verb forms
- Special honorific verb forms
- Six fucking copulas
- Written in the glorious དབུ་ཅན
- Buddhism baby
Sample of RengwaCan't find any yet.
Latest vocabulary
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Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarRetroflexAlveolo-
palatal
PalatalVelarGlottalOther
Nasal m n ɳ     ŋ    
Plosive p pʰ [b]1 t tʰ [d]2 [ʈ]3 [ɖ]4     k kʰ [g]5    
Fricative   s [ʂ]6 ɕ     h  
Affricate   t͡s [ʈ͡ʂ]7 t͡ɕ        
Lateral approximant   l [ɭ]8   ʎ      
Approximant   ɹ     j     ɥ
  1. allophone of /p/
  2. allophone of /t/
  3. allophone of /tʰ/
  4. allophone of /t/
  5. allophone of /k/
  6. allophone of /ɕ/
  7. allophone of /t͡s/
  8. allophone of /l/
VowelsFrontBack
Close i ĩ y ỹ u
Close-mid ø ø̃ o
Open-mid ɛ ɛ̃  
Open   ɑ
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rengwa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RengwaOrthography [edit]
/kʰ//k/, [g]/ŋ//t͡ɕ/, [ʈ͡ʂ]/ɳ//tʰ/, [ʈ]/t/, [d], [ɖ]/n/, [ɳ]/pʰ/
/p/, [b]/m//t͡s/, [ʈ͡ʂ]/ɥ//j//ɹ//l/, [ɭ]ལྱ/ʎ//ɕ/, [ʂ]
/s/, [ʂ]/h//ɑ/ཨི/i/, /ĩ/ཨུ/u/, /y/, /ỹ/ཨེ/ɛ/, /ɛ̃/ཨོ/ø/, /ø̃/, /o/
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