Ulch language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Page Module:Message box/ambox.css has no content.
 | Page Template:Hidden begin/styles.css has no content. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in українська. (October 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
| Ulch | |
|---|---|
| Нāнʼи хэсэни | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Khabarovskiy Kray |
| Ethnicity | 2,800 Ulch (2010 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 150 (2010 census)[1] |
| Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ulc |
| Glottolog | ulch1241 |
| ELP | Template:Endangered Languages Project |
| Linguasphere | Template:Infobox language/lingualist |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Ulch is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Page Template:Infobox/styles-images.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
The Ulch language, or Olcha, is a Tungusic language spoken by the Ulch people in the Russian Far East. The language is moribund, with only 150 speakers (2010 census).
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | ɪ ~ e | ə | ʊ ~ o |
| Open | a |
- Vowel length is also distributed.
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal |
Velar | Uvular | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡ɕ | k | (q) |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʑ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | x | (χ) | |
| voiced | β | (ɣ) | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | (w) | j | ||||
- [f] is a rare sound in native words.
- /β ɡ/ have allophones of [w ɣ].
- /k x/ can become uvularized as [q χ] before vowels /a o/.[2]
Alphabet
| А а | (а̄) | Б б | В в | Г г | Д д | Дʼ дʼ | Е е |
| (е̄) | Ё ё | (ё̄) | Ж ж | З з | И и | (ӣ) | Й й |
| К к | Л л | М м | Н н | Нʼ нʼ | Ӈ ӈ | О о | (о̄) |
| П п | Р р | С с | Т т | У у | (ӯ) | Ф ф | Х х |
| Ц ц | Ч ч | Ш ш | Щ щ | ъ | Ы ы | ь | Э э |
| (э̄) | Ю ю | (ю̄) | Я я | (я̄) |
In brackets are letters that are used in writing, though not officially included in the alphabet.
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ a b Ulch at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Sunik, 1985
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bitkeeva, A.N.; V.Y. Gusev; O.A. Povoroznyuk; D.A. Funk; N.V. Khokhlov; K.G. Shakhovtsov (2005). "Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia". UNESCO Moscow Office. Archived from the original on 28 July 2009. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
- Sunik, O. P. (1985). Ul'chskij jazyk: issledovanija i materially. Leningrad: Nauka, Leningradskoe Otdelenie. 262pp.
External links
Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.
Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "Sister project logo".
Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.
Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "Sister project logo".
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found. Template:Asbox
