Dzala language

{{Infobox language

|name=Dzala

|nativename=Dzala 'Mat

|region= Bhutan

|speakers= 22,000

|date=2011

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman?

|fam3=Tibeto-Kanauri?

|fam4=Bodish

|fam5=East Bodish

|fam6=Dakpa–Dzala

|script=Tibetan script

|iso3=dzl

|glotto=dzal1238

|glottorefname=Dzalakha

}}

The Dzala language, also called Dzalakha, Dzalamat, or Yangtsebikha, is an East Bodish language spoken in eastern Bhutan, in the Lhuntse and Trashiyangtse Districts.{{cite web |url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003 |format=PDF |last=van Driem |first=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |title=Language Policy in Bhutan |publisher=SOAS |location=London |year=1993 |access-date=2011-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101084255/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo%3A3003 |archive-date=2010-11-01 |url-status=dead }}

Phonology

=Consonants=

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! colspan="2" |

! Labial

! Dental/
Alveolar

! Post-alveolar

! Velar

! Uvular

! Glottal

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! colspan="2" | Nasal

| {{IPAlink|m}}

| {{IPAlink|n}}

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! rowspan="3" | Stop

! aspirated

| {{IPAlink|pʰ}}

| {{IPAlink|tʰ}}

| {{IPAlink|kʰ}}

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! voiced

| {{IPAlink|b}}

| {{IPAlink|d}}

| {{IPAlink|ɡ}}

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! ejective

| {{IPAlink|pʼ}}

| {{IPAlink|tʼ}}

| {{IPAlink|kʼ}}

| {{IPAlink|qʼ}}

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! rowspan="3" | Affricate

! aspirated

| {{IPAlink|t͡sʰ}}

| {{IPAlink|t͡ʃʰ}}

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! voiced

| {{IPAlink|d͡z}}

| {{IPAlink|d͡ʒ}}

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! ejective

| {{IPAlink|t͡sʼ}}

| {{IPAlink|t͡ʃʼ}}

style="text-align: center;"

! rowspan="2" | Fricative

! voiceless

| {{IPAlink|s}}

| {{IPAlink|ʃ}}

| colspan="2" | {{IPAlink|x}}

| {{IPAlink|h}}

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! voiced

| {{IPAlink|v}}

| {{IPAlink|z}}

| {{IPAlink|ʒ}}

| colspan="2" | {{IPAlink|ɣ}}

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! colspan="2" | Vibrant

| {{IPAlink|r}}

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! colspan="2" | Lateral

| {{IPAlink|l}}

=Vowels=

class="wikitable"

! Front

!Central

! Back

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! Close

| {{IPAlink|i}}

| {{IPAlink|u}}

style="text-align: center;"

! Mid

| {{IPAlink|e}}

| {{IPAlink|o}}

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! Open

| {{IPAlink|a}}

References

Bibliography

{{cite book |title= Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region: Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language |last=van Driem |first=George |author-link=George van Driem |year=2001 |publisher=Brill |isbn=90-04-12062-9 |pages=1412 }}
{{Cite book

| first =George

| last = van Driem

| author-link =George van Driem

| editor-last =Moseley

| editor-first =Christopher

| contribution = Endangered Languages of Bhutan and Sikkim: East Bodish Languages

| title = Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

| year = 2007

| page = 295

| publisher = Routledge

| isbn = 0-7007-1197-X }}

{{cite book | last=Namgyel | first= Singye| title=The Language Web of Bhutan | publisher=KMT| location=Thimphu }}
{{cite book | last1=van Driem| first1= George L| author-link=George van Driem |author2=Karma Tshering of Gaselô (collab) | title=Dzongkha |series= Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region| publisher=Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies| location=Leiden | year=1998 | isbn=90-5789-002-X}}
{{Cite journal

| pages = 71–85

| last = van Driem

| first = George

| title = Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts

| journal = Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond

| year = 2007

| url=http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/2007DzalaDakpa.pdf

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228163722/http://himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/2007DzalaDakpa.pdf

| url-status=usurped

| archive-date=February 28, 2017

}}

External links

{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090130020512/http://himalayanlanguages.org/ Himalayan Languages Project]}}

Category:Languages of Bhutan

Category:East Bodish languages