She language 1666894 224355928 2008-07-08T14:16:49Z Tropylium 400620 /* Consonants */ Table ordered {{Infobox Language |name=She language |nativename=Ho Ne |pronunciation={{IPA|[hɔ<sup>22</sup> ne<sup>53</sup>]}} |states=[[China]] |region=[[Guangdong]] |speakers=1,200 (2002) |familycolor=Hmong-Mien |nation=none |iso3=shx}} The '''She language''', spoken by the [[She people]], is a [[Hmong-Mien]] language. Most of the over 709,000 She people today speak [[Chinese dialects]]. Those who retain their own language - approximately 1,200 individuals in [[Guangdong]] province - call themselves ''Ho Ne'' "mountain people" (Chinese: 活聂 huóniè). == Phonology == === [[Consonant]]s === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! colspan="2" rowspan="2"| &nbsp; ! colspan="2"|'''[[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]''' ! rowspan="2"|'''[[Labiodental consonant|Labio-<br/>dental]]''' ! colspan="2"|'''[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]''' ! colspan="3"|'''[[Velar consonant|Velar]]''' ! colspan="2"|'''[[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]''' |- ! <small>Plain</small> ! <small>[[Palatalization|Palatalized]]</small> ! <small>Plain</small> ! <small>Palatzd</small> ! <small>Plain</small> ! <small>Palatzd</small> ! <small>[[Labialization|Labialized]]</small> ! <small>Plain</small> ! <small>Palatzd</small> |- ! rowspan="2"|'''[[Nasal consonant|Nasals]]''' ! <small>[[voice (phonetics)|Voiced]]</small> | {{IPA|m}} || {{IPA|mʲ}} | | {{IPA|n}} || {{IPA|nʲ}} | {{IPA|ŋ}} || {{IPA|ŋʲ}} || | || |- ! <small>[[voice (phonetics)|Voiceless]]</small> | || | | || | {{IPA|ŋ̊}} || || | || |- ! rowspan="2"| '''[[Stop consonant|Plosives]]''' ! <small>Voiceless [[aspiration (phonetics)|unaspirated]]</small> | {{IPA|p}} || {{IPA|pʲ}} | | {{IPA|t}} || {{IPA|tʲ}} | {{IPA|k}} || {{IPA|kʲ}} || {{IPA|kʷ}} | || |- ! <small>Voiceless [[aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]]</small> | {{IPA|pʰ}} || {{IPA|pʰʲ}} | | {{IPA|tʰ}} || {{IPA|tʰʲ}} | {{IPA|kʰ}} || {{IPA|kʰʲ}} || {{IPA|kʰʷ}} | || |- ! rowspan="2"| '''[[Affricate consonant|Affricates]]''' ! <small>Voiceless unaspirated</small> | || | | {{IPA|ts}} || {{IPA|tsʲ}} | || || | || |- ! <small>Voiceless aspirated</small> | || | | {{IPA|tsʰ}} || {{IPA|tsʰʲ}} | || || | || |- ! rowspan="2"|'''[[Fricative consonant|Fricatives]]''' ! <small>Voiceless</small> | || | {{IPA|f}} | {{IPA|s}} || {{IPA|sʲ}} | || || | {{IPA|h}} || {{IPA|hʲ}} |- ! <small>Voiced</small> | || | {{IPA|v}} | {{IPA|z}} || {{IPA|zʲ}} | || || | || |} === [[Vowels]] === ==References== *Mao, Zongwu & Meng, Chaoji. 1986. ''She yu jian zhi'' (A Sketch of the She language). Beijing, China: Nationalities Press. (毛宗武, 蒙朝吉. 1986. 畬語簡志. 北京: 民族出版社) *Ratliff, Martha. 1998. Ho Ne (She) is Hmongic: One final argument. ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 21.2:97-109. *You, Wenliang. 2002. ''She zu yu yan'' (The Language of the She people). Fuzhou, China: Fujian People's Publishing House. (游文良. 2002. 畲族语言. 福州: 福建人民出版社) [[Category:Hmong-Mien languages]] [[Category:Languages of China]] [[ja:シェ語]] [[zh:畲语]]