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Konyak | |
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Native to | India, Myanmar |
Ethnicity | Konyak |
Native speakers | 246,000 (2011) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nbe |
Glottolog | kony1248 |
ELP | Konyak Naga |
Konyak is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Konyak people in the state of Nagaland, north-eastern India.
The language has 244,000 speakers in the state (as of the 2011 census); most of these (237,000) are in Mon district, with smaller populations in the districts of Dimapur (2,900), Kohima (2,000), Mokokchung (1,100), and Longleng (900). There are also an estimated 2,000 speakers in neighbouring Myanmar, specifically in Hkamti District and in Lahe township.
A list of Konyak dialects from Hoipo Konyak (2021:5) is given below.
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Konyak.
Tableng is the standard dialect spoken in Wanching and Wakching.
There are three lexically contrastive contour tones in Konyak – rising (marked in writing by an acute accent – á), falling (marked by a grave accent – à) and level (unmarked).
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
The vowels /a/, /o/ and /u/ are lengthened before approximants. /ə/ does not occur finally.
Bilabial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p pʰ |
t̪ | c | k kʰ |
ʔ |
Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | |
Fricative | s | h | |||
Lateral | l | ||||
Approximant | w | j |
The stops /p/ and /k/ contrast with the aspirated /pʰ/ and /kʰ/. /p/ and /c/ become voiced intervocalically across morpheme boundaries. The dental /t/ is realised as an alveolar if preceded by a vowel with a rising tone. The approximants /w/ and /j/ are pronounced laxer and shorter after vowels; /w/ becomes tenser initially before high vowels. If morpheme-initial or intervocalic, /j/ is pronounced with audible friction. /pʰ/, /kʰ/, /c/, /ɲ/, /s/, /h/ and /l/ do not occur morpheme-finally, while /ʔ/ does not appear morpheme-initially. Except for morpheme-initial /kp/ and /kʰl/, consonant clusters occur only medially.
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