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Austroasiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pnar (Ka Ktien Pnar), also known as Jaiñtia[2] is an Austroasiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
Pnar | |
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Jaiñtia | |
Ka Ktien Pnar | |
Pronunciation | /kɑ kt̪eːn pnɑr/ |
Native to | India, Bangladesh |
Ethnicity | Pnar people |
Native speakers | 395,124 (2011 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pbv |
Glottolog | pnar1238 |
Pnar has 30 phonemes: 7 vowels and 23 consonants. Other sounds listed below are phonetic realizations.[3] The sounds in brackets are phonetic realizations and the sounds in slashes are phonemes.
There is also one diphthong: /ia/.
Syllables in Pnar can consist of a single nucleic vowel. Maximally, they can include a complex onset of two consonants, a diphthong nucleus, and a coda consonant. A second type of syllable contains a syllabic nasal/trill/lateral immediately following the onset consonant. This syllabic consonant behaves as the rhyme. (Ring, 2012: 141–2)
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