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Shö language

Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Burma and Bangladesh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Shö is a Kuki-Chin language dialect cluster of Burma and Bangladesh. There are perhaps three distinct dialects, Asho (Khyang), Chinbon, and Shendu.

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Mayin and Longpaw are not mutually intelligible, but have been subsumed under the ISO code for Chinbon because Mayin-Longpaw speakers generally understand Chinbon.[2] Minkya is similarly included because most Minkya speakers understand Mayin.[3] A written script was developed by Rev. Lyman Stilson in 1842.[4]

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Geographical distribution

Chinbon (Uppu) is spoken in the following townships of Myanmar.[5]

Asho is spoken in Ayeyarwady Region, Bago Region, and Magway Region, and Rakhine State, Myanmar.

VanBik (2009:38)[6] lists the following Asho dialects.

Shendu is spoken in Mizoram, India.

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Phonology

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The Asho dialect (K’Chò) has 26 to 30 consonants and ten to eleven vowels depending on the dialect.

More information Labial, Dental/ Alveolar ...
  • Voiced plosives /b d ɡ z/ are only heard in the Plains dialect.
  • In the Plains dialect, dental plosives /t̪ t̪ʰ/ are pronounced as alveolar [t tʰ], along with /d/ being only alveolar.
  • Velar plosives /k kʰ/ may be palatalized as affricates [tʃ tʃʰ] before front vowels.
  • In some dialects a voiceless [] is heard in place of /ʃ/.
  • /j/ may also be heard as a fricative [ʒ] in free variation among dialects.
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Diphthongs: ei, ai, au

  • Sounds /ʏ ʉ/ only occur in the Hill dialect. In the Plains dialect, /ʊ u/ is heard in place of /ʏ ʉ/.
  • A shortened [ə̆] is heard in unstressed syllables.
  • /ɤ/ can sometimes be heard as more central [ɘ].
  • A prevelarized /ˠi/ occurs in the Plains dialect.
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Morphology

Similar to other Kukish languages, many Asho verbs have two distinct stems. This stem alternation is a Proto-Kukish feature, which has been retained to different degrees in different Kukish languages.[8]

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