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Austroasiatic language spoken in Vietnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bahnar language or Ba-Na language (Bahnar pronunciation: [ˈbəˌnaː]) is a Central Bahnaric language. It has nine vowel qualities and phonemic vowel length.
Bahnar | |
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Bana | |
Pronunciation | [ˈbəˌnaː] |
Native to | Vietnam |
Ethnicity | Bahnar people |
Native speakers | (160,000 in Viet Nam cited 1999 census)[1] |
Latin (adapted Vietnamese) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bdq |
Glottolog | bahn1262 |
Đào (1998)[2] lists the following subgroups of Bahnar and their respective locations.
Bùi (2011:5-6)[3] lists the following subgroups of Bahnar and their respective locations.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tɕ | k | ʔ |
voiced | b | d | dʑ | ɡ | ||
preglottal | ʔb | ʔd | ʔdʑ | |||
Nasal | plain | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
preglottal | ʔm | ʔn | ʔɲ | ʔŋ | ||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Rhotic | r | |||||
Approximant | plain | w | l | j | ||
preglottal | ʔw | ʔl | ʔj |
*-In the final sequence /jh/, /h/ is not pronounced and /j/ is pronounced phonetically as a short vowel /i/.[4]
Other minor groups include the Kon Kđe, Bơ Nơm, and A Roh subgroups in Kông Chro District and K'Bang District of Gia Lai Province (Bùi 2011:6).
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Bahnar.
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