Amanghu [TZH]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Amanghu
Amanghu (CYRILLICUnknown code: ама̎ңюу̎ PINYINUnknown code: amánghoú HANZIUnknown code: 天語 IPAUnknown code: amáŋɥɯ́) or "the language of the open sky", also known as erroneously as Tienic Chinese, Gam Chinese, and Chinese Altaic, is a mostly-analytic, isolating Sino-Tibetan isolate spoken mainly in Altay Province, Xinjiang, in the People's Republic of China, as well as neighbouring regions of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. It's the historic language of the Gam people, also known as the Blue People (CYRILLICUnknown code: г̆а̎мцѡ̎ıк PINYINUnknown code: ghámtsóık HANZIUnknown code: 藍族 IPAUnknown code: /gʰámt͡só̰k/).
Old Amanghu was originally spoken by nomadic tribes in what is now northern China between c.200 AD and c.800 AD. The ancestor of Old Amanghu is commonly considered to be a Sinitic language with a close relationship to Old Chinese, but this classification remains contentious. Amanghu vocabulary is largely sourced from Proto-Sinitic, the ancestor language that it shares with Old Chinese, with a large number of loan words from Kyrgyz, Mandarin and Cantonese. Although Amanghu is often referred to as a variety of Chinese, it is distinct from "true" Chinese languages as it is not descended from Old Chinese.
Amanghu is tonal, featuring neutral and high tones, as well as phonemic tense and lax vowels (creaky and normal), providing for four "tone-like" varieties of each vowel. Amanghu also features aspirated varieties of many of its consonants.
Amanghu is traditionally written in both Chinese characters and a version of Cyrillic, and the two written traditions are often used interchangeably. Cyrillic is used almost exclusively for speakers outside of China.
Amanghu (CYRILLICUnknown code: ама̎ңюу̎ PINYINUnknown code: amánghoú HANZIUnknown code: 天語 IPAUnknown code: amáŋɥɯ́) or "the language of the open sky", also known as erroneously as Tienic Chinese, Gam Chinese, and Chinese Altaic, is a mostly-analytic, isolating Sino-Tibetan isolate spoken mainly in Altay Province, Xinjiang, in the People's Republic of China, as well as neighbouring regions of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. It's the historic language of the Gam people, also known as the Blue People (CYRILLICUnknown code: г̆а̎мцѡ̎ıк PINYINUnknown code: ghámtsóık HANZIUnknown code: 藍族 IPAUnknown code: /gʰámt͡só̰k/).Old Amanghu was originally spoken by nomadic tribes in what is now northern China between c.200 AD and c.800 AD. The ancestor of Old Amanghu is commonly considered to be a Sinitic language with a close relationship to Old Chinese, but this classification remains contentious. Amanghu vocabulary is largely sourced from Proto-Sinitic, the ancestor language that it shares with Old Chinese, with a large number of loan words from Kyrgyz, Mandarin and Cantonese. Although Amanghu is often referred to as a variety of Chinese, it is distinct from "true" Chinese languages as it is not descended from Old Chinese.
Amanghu is tonal, featuring neutral and high tones, as well as phonemic tense and lax vowels (creaky and normal), providing for four "tone-like" varieties of each vowel. Amanghu also features aspirated varieties of many of its consonants.
Amanghu is traditionally written in both Chinese characters and a version of Cyrillic, and the two written traditions are often used interchangeably. Cyrillic is used almost exclusively for speakers outside of China.
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Language family relationships
Language treeSino-Tibetan
⤷ Proto-Sino-Tibetan
⤷ Proto-Sinitic
⤷ Proto-Tienic
⤷ Amanghu
⤷ Proto-Sino-Tibetan
⤷ Proto-Sinitic
⤷ Proto-Tienic
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Amanghu[view] About Sino-TibetanThe Sino-Tibetan languages are a large, widespread family of East and Southeast Asia. The most widely spoken Sino-Tibetan languages are the Sinitic languages, which includes all varieties of Chinese, adding up to over a billion speakers. The remainin...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b bʰ | t tʰ | d dʰ | k kʰ | g gʰ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ʂ | x | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ | ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʰ | k͡x k͡xʰ1 | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | ɥ | ||||||||||||||
- Commonly realised as [k͡xh] or [k͡xəh].
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i ḭ ḭ́ í | ɯ ɯ̰ ɯ̰́ ɯ́ | ||
| Close-mid | e ḛ ḛ́ é | o o̰ ó̰ ó | ||
| Open | a a̰ á̰ á | |||
| Polyphthongs | ei eḭ eḭ́ eí | ɯe ɯḛ ɯḛ́ ɯé | ie iḛ iḛ́ ié | eɯ eɯ̰ eɯ̰́ eɯ́ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Amanghu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| AmanghuOrthography | |||||||||
| Iı dap // | Аа ya /a/ | Бб be /b/ | Б̆ б̆ be huki /bʰ/ | Вв wom /w/ | Гг ge /g/ | Г̆ г̆ ge huki /gʰ/ | Дд de /d/ | Д̆ д̆ de huki /dʰ/ | Ее ye /e/ |
| Ӂӂ tza huki /ʈ͡ʂʰ/ | Жж tza /ʈ͡ʂ/ | Ии yi /i/ | Кк ka /k/ | К̆ к̆ ka huki /kʰ/ | Лл la /l/ | Мм em /m/ | Нн en /n/ | Пп pe /p/ | П̆ п̆ pe huki /pʰ/ |
| Рр ra /ɻ/ | Сс se /s/ | Тт te /t/ | Т̆ т̆ te huki /tʰ/ | Уу wu /ɯ/ | Хх qa /x/ | Цц tse /t͡s/ | Ц̆ ц̆ tse huki /t͡sʰ/ | Чч che /t͡ʃ/ | Ч̆ ч̆ che huki /t͡ʃʰ/ |
| Шш sha /ʃ/ | Щщ za /ʂ/ | Ьь yer /j/ | Юю yu /ɥ/ | Ѡѡ wo /o/ | Ҡҡ kqa /k͡x/ | Ҡ̆ ҡ̆ kqa huki /k͡xʰ/1 | Ңң eng /ŋ/ | Һһ ha /h/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
- Commonly realised as [k͡xh] or [k͡xəh].
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