Horpa language
Horpa | |
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Stau | |
Native to | China |
Region | Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan Province |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2002–2004)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:ero – Horpajih – sTodsde (Shangzhai) |
Glottolog | horp1240 |
ELP |
Horpa (also known in some publications as Stau – Chinese: 道孚语 Daofu, 爾龔語 Ergong) are a cluster of closely related
Names
Ethnologue lists alternate names and dialect names for Horpa as Stau/Daofuhua, Bawang, Bopa, Danba, Dawu, Geshitsa/Geshiza/Geshizahua, Hor, Huo’er, Hórsók, Nyagrong-Minyag, Pawang, Rgu, Western Gyarong/Western Jiarong, Xinlong-Muya, and rTa’u.[2]
Classification
Horpa is a type of
Geographic distribution
Horpa is spoken primarily in western
Ergong is a non-tonal language (Sun 2013).[8]
Varieties
Varieties of Horpa include Shangzhai Horpa and Gexi Horpa (Sun 2013).[9]
Jackson Sun (2018)[10] lists the following five varieties of Horpa.
- Central Horpa (Stau-Dgebshes) is widely spoken in Rta’u County (Daofu County 道孚县) and Rongbrag County (Danba County 丹巴县), Dkarmdzes Prefecture, as well as a few villages in western Chuchen County (Jinchuan County金川县), Rngaba Prefecture. It consists of 3 dialects.
- Rta’u (Daofu 道孚) (non-tonal). Also documented in Genxia Wengmu (2019).[11]
- Dgebshesrtsa (Geshezha 革什扎) (non-tonal)
- Upper Stongdgu (Shang Donggu 上东谷) (has constrative phonation)
- Northern Horpa (Stodsde) is spoken in southern Dzamthang County (Rangtang County, where it is spoken in the townships of Puxi, Shili, and Zongke townships, and around the Duke and Zhongke rivers' confluence. There are 4,100 speakers as of 2004. Dialects are Dayili (Northern), Zongke (宗科乡; Western), and Puxi (蒲西乡; Eastern). Phonologically, the Northern and Western dialects are similar to each other, while the Eastern dialect is divergent. Additionally, Gates (2010)[12] considers Erkai to be a "Western rGyalrongic" (Horpa-Shangzhai) language. Jackson Sun classifies Erkai as a variety of sTodsde (Shangzhai).[13]
- Phosul (Puxi 蒲西)
- Yunasche (Dayili 大依里)
- Sili-Rtsangkhog (Shili-Zongke 石里-宗科)
- Western Horpa is a tonal language scattered throughout several small areas of central and southern Nyagrong County (Xinlong County 新龙县), Dkarmdzes Prefecture. Although speakers refer to themselves as Minyag (mə̀ɲá, mə̀ ɲó, etc.), Western Horpa is not the same language as the Minyag or Muya language. There are 3 dialects that are significantly different from each other. The Nyagrong Minyag (Western Horpa) language has also been documented by Van Way (2018).[14]
- rGyarwagshis (Jialaxi 甲拉西)
- Yangslagshis (Youlaxi 尤拉西)
- Bangsmad (Bomei 博美)
- Northwestern Horpa, an endangered Horpa variety, is spoken in southern Brag’go County (Daofu County道孚县). There is heavy Tibetan influence and minor internal diversity. It is non-tonal.
- Eastern Horpa is a divergent Horpa variety spoken in Dpa’bo (Bawang 巴旺) and Nyindkar (Niega 聂嘎) townships, eastern Rongbrag County (Danba County 丹巴县). Beaudouin & Honkasalo (2023) suggest that Tangut is likely closely related to present-day Eastern Horpa varieties.[15]
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
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plain | sibilant
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Nasal | m | n
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ɲ | ŋ | (ɴ) | |||||
Stop/
Affricate |
voiceless | p | t
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t͡s | t͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | c | k | q | (ʔ) |
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | t͡sʰ | t͡ʂʰ | t͡ɕʰ | cʰ | kʰ | qʰ | ||
voiced | b | d
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d͡z | d͡ʐ | d͡ʑ | ɟ | ɡ | (ɢ) | ||
Fricative | voiceless | (f) | ɬ
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s | (ʂ) | ɕ | x | χ | (h) | |
voiced | v | ɮ
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z | (ʐ) | ʑ | ɣ | ʁ | |||
Lateral | l
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Sonorant | w | r
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j |
- /q/ is heard as [ɢ] when following a nasal consonant.
- A glottal stop [ʔ] is also heard, but only when occurring before word-initial onset-less vowel syllables.
- /v/ can be heard as voiceless [f] when preceding or following voiceless consonants.
- /x/ can also be heard as glottal [h] in free variation among speakers.
- The uvular nasal [ɴ] is only heard when appearing together with uvular consonants /q/, /qʰ/ and [ɢ].
Rhotic consonant
/r/ has four allophones as either retroflex voiceless [ʂ] or voiced [ʐ] fricatives, as a trill [r], or as a result of vowel rhotacization [V˞]. It is heard as [ʂ] when preceding or following voiceless consonants or also as a word-final coda. It is heard as [ʐ] when in free variation in initial position or when preceding or following voiced consonants. The occurrence of it as a trill [r] is heard word-medially when after a vowel and before a consonant, but is for the most part less predictable in that it overlaps in distribution with [ʂ] and especially [ʐ]. When words with /r/ are heard in isolation, the sound is heard as [ʐ], but then it becomes a trill [r] when in word context or within compounds. [r] also alternates with [ʂ] when it is in context word-final position. The rhotacization of vowels [V˞] occurs on the preceding vowel before /r/ in word-final position, however it can also be heard word-medially when before a lateral approximant /l/. The rhotacization is attested on the vowels /ɛ/, /ə/, /u/ and /ɑ/.[16]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | ə | o |
Open-mid | ɛ | ||
Open | æ | ɑ |
- /i/ is also heard as [ɪ], when in word-final position by a coda consonant.[16]
Vocabulary
The following comparative table of Horpa diagnostic vocabulary items is from Sun (2018:4).
Gloss | Central Horpa (Rta’u 道孚) | Northern Horpa (Rtsangkhog 宗科) | Western Horpa (Rgyarwagshis 甲拉西) | Eastern Horpa (Dpa’bo 巴旺) | Northwestern Horpa (Nyinmo) | Khroskyabs (’brongrdzong) | Rgyalrong (Tshobdun )
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sun | ɣbə | ʁɟə̀ | ɣbə̀ | ʁʷbə | ɣbə | ɣnəʔ ~ ʁbjə | tɐ́-ŋɐ |
water | ɣrə | grə̀ | ɣrə̀ | wrə | ɣrə | ɣdə | tə-ciʔ |
person | vdzi | vdzì | vdzì | vdzi-sme | vdzi | vɟoʔ | kə-rnbjoʔ |
mouth | jɑ | ɣmú | ɬó | ʁmo | ja | qʰo | tə-ɣmor |
heart | zjar | zɟwàʶ | jzò-rdá | zdzʌr | zʒar | sjar | tə-sni |
liver | sʰi | sʰə̀ | sʰə̀ | sʰi | si | fseʔ | tə-mtsʰi |
meat | bjoŋnoŋ | bdʒànó | ntʰú | mdʒʌno | pcene | tʰəmʔ | ʃe |
horse | rɣi | rì | rjí | rji | rji | breʔ | ⁿbri |
chicken | ɣra | χsó-vjá | ? | wə-rja | ɣə́-ra | pa-kuʔ | pɣe |
yellow | rȵə-rȵə | ʁrɲə̀ʶ | rȵə̀-rȵə́ | rɲə | rɲə | ʁrɲəɣ | kə-qɐ-rŋɛʔ |
bitter | sȵa-sȵa | sɲáʶ | sɲà | sɲæ | sɲa | tʃʰaχ | kə-qjev |
eat | ⁿgə | dzə́ | dzə́ | dzi | ⁿgə ~ tsə | dzeʔ | ⁿdze |
ill | ŋo | ŋò | ŋú | ŋwa | ŋo | ⁿge | nⁿgiʔ |
sleep | rgə | ⁿjáp ~ rgə́ | rgə́ | rgə | rgə | jəv | rⁿgu |
one | ro | réɣ | ré | raw | rəɣ | rʌɣ | cet |
ten | zʁa | zʁàʶ | zʁò | zʁa | zʁa | sɣə(t) | sqeʔ |
Jacques et al. (2017)
Gloss | Stau | Khroskyabs | Japhug |
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heart | zjar | sjɑ̂r | tɯ-sni |
smoke | mkʰə | mkʰə́ | tɤ-kʰɯ |
be big | cʰe | cʰæ̂ | wxti |
bread | ləkʰi | lækʰí | qajɣi |
writing | tɕədə | dʑədə́ | tɤscoz |
wind | χpərju | χpə̂rju | qale |
skin | tɕədʑa | dʑədʑɑ̂ | tɯ-ndʐi |
water | ɣrə | jdə̂ | tɯ-ci |
experience | zdar | zdɑ̂r | rɲo |
general classifier | ə-lɞ | ə̂-lo | tɯ-rdoʁ |
human classifier | a-ʁi | ə̂-ʁæi | tɯ-rdoʁ |
exist (animate) | ci/ɟi | ɟê | tu |
exist (be put on) | stʰə | stî | tu |
Grammar
Shangzhai Horpa (Puxi Shangzhai) is a dialect of the Horpa language noted by a single consistently non-syllabic causative prefix "s-", which exerts pressure on the already elaborate onset system and triggers multiple phonological adjustments (Sun 2007).[17] Gexi Horpa language not only has split verbal agreement system like rGyalrong but also has a hybrid system involving a more intricate interplay of functional and syntactic factors (Sun 2013).[9] The verbs in the rGylarongic family are marked for person and agreement, and Horpa language also has subtype of hierarchical agreement.
Stau is often used as an alternative name for Horpa, but in fact Stau is just one of several Horpa languages (Jacques et al. 2014).[18] The Stau language is primarily spoken in Daofu County of Ganzi Prefecture, but is also spoken in the southeastern corner of Luhuo County and in the village of Dangling of western Danba County. Currently Jesse P. Gates is writing a comprehensive grammar of the Stau language (Gates to appear). Other articles on aspects of Stau grammar include Gates (2017),[19] Gates & Kim (2018),[20] Gates et al. (2019),[21] and Gates et al. (2022).[22]
Stau (Horpa) language follows some traits of the Tibetan language (Bradley 2012).[23] As a Qiangic language, Horpa has unique verb inflection and morphology such as the strategy of inverting the aspiration feature in the formation of the past and progressive stem(s) (Sun 2000).[3]
Examples
Verb agreement The Horpa verb agrees with its subject. For example, zbəcʰa-i [zbəcʰe], means ‘you beat’, and zbəcʰa-u [zbəcʰo], means, 'I beat’.[24]
See also
- Horpa (Zongke) word list (Wiktionary)
References
- ^ Horpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
sTodsde (Shangzhai) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ "Horpa". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ a b Sun, Jackson T. S. (2000). "Stem Alternations in Puxi Verb Inflection: Toward Validating the rGyalrongic Subgroup in Qiangic" (PDF). Language and Linguistics. 1 (2): 211–232. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-15. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
- ^ Beaudouin, Mathieu. "Tangut and Horpa languages: Some shared morphosyntactic features". Language and Linguistics. 24 (4).
- ^ "Chinese: 甘孜州丹巴县大桑区尔龚" "Tibetan-Burman Phonology and Lexicon" Writing Group (1991). Zàng Miǎn yǔ yǔyīn hé cíhuì 藏缅语语音和词汇 [Tibeto-Burman Phonology and Lexicon] (in Chinese). Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe. p. 211.
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- ^ a b Jacques, Guillaume; Antonov, Anton; Nima, Lobsang; Lai, Yunfan (2017). "Stau (Ergong, Horpa)". In Thurgood, G.; LaPolla, R. (eds.). The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 597–613. Archived from the original on 2020-08-28.
- ^ Sun, Hongkai 孙宏开 (2013). Bā Jiāng liúyù de Zàng Miǎn yǔ 八江流域的藏缅语 [Tibeto-Burman Languages of Eight Watersheds] (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe.
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- ^ a b Sun, Jackson T.-S. (2018). "The Ancestry of Horpa: Further Morphological Evidence". Taipei: Academia Sinica.[dead link]
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- ^ Gates, Jesse (2010). On the Edge with Erkai: A Preliminary Investigation of Erkai's Place in Western rGyalrongic. Presentation at the 43rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 43), 15 Oct 2010, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
- ^ Gates, Jesse P. (2012). Situ in Situ: Towards a Dialectology of Jiāróng (rGyalrong) (M.A. thesis). Trinity Western University.
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- ^ Beaudouin, Mathieu; Honkasalo, Sami (2023). Proto-Horpa and the Classification of Tangut. 56th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, 10-12 October 2023. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
- ^ a b Vanderveen, A. Chantel (2015). A phonology of Stau. Trinity Western University.
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- ^ Bradley, David (2012). "Tibeto-Burman Languages of China" – via Academia.edu.
- ^ Sun, Jackson T. (2013). "Horpa Language in Xichuan Province [川西霍爾語格西話動詞對協初探]". Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics.
External links
- Horpa at the Endangered Languages Project.
- Lewis, M. Paul; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2015). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/horp1239