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__Gong language (phonology)__

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Phonology

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Consonants

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The Phoneme of Gong consonants (Kok chiang dialect, Suphanburi) [1]
Manners (see below) Places
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Stop Unvoiced Unaspirated p t c k ʔ
Aspirated
Voiced b d ɡ
Fricative f s x h
Lateral l
Approximant w j


  • The Phoneme, those can be both Initial and Final have 3 Phonemes, such as /ŋ/, /k/ and /ʔ/.
  • The Cluster consonants have 4 Phonemes, such as /pʰl/, /kl/, /kʰl/ and /bl/ those occur only in the beginning of the syllable. However, the New generation do not like to pronounced /pʰl/ and /bl/ for the Cluster consonants, but pronounced by only the First consonants.
  • The Phoneme /x/ can hear only in the elder by the one word, that is /xǎʔ/ 'เข็ม'.
  • The Phoneme /pʰ/ have 2 Allophones, such as [pʰ] and [f] that have the Allophones, such as [e~fe] 'ไม้ (ไผ่)'. About the Phoneme /cʰ/ this sound have 2 Allophones, such as [cʰ] and [s] and those also have more practice, such as [ǒŋ~sǒŋ 'กิ้งก่า'. All of these, because the New generation like to pronounced /pʰ/ and /cʰ/ to be [f] and [s] by serially. But not all of system

Vowels

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Monophthong

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The Monophthong of Gong language (Kok chiang dialect, Suphanburi) [2]
Tongue levels (see below) Places of a Tongue
Front Central Back
Close     i     ɨ                 ʉ u
Mid-close ʊ
Mid     e           ø ə o
Mid-open     ɛ           œ ʌ
Open                   a ɔ


  • The Phoneme /e/ have 2 Allophones, such as [e] and [ɪ] by an Allophone [e] occur with Final consonant, such as [kěŋ] 'ตัวเอง', the Allophone [ɪ] occur without Final consonant, such as [cɪ] 'ม้าม'
  • The phoneme /ɔ/ is [ɔ̞] because /ɔ/ is an Mid-open back rounded vowel. But the sound /ɒ/ is rarely occurrence. Therefore, the Phoneme is /ɔ/

Diphthong

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The Gong language (Kok chiang dialect) diphthongs have 3 Phonemes [2] such as /i̯a/, /ɨ̯a/ and /u̯ɔ/

Tones

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The Gong language (Kok chiang dialect) tones have 4 Phonemes[3] such as

  • Mid tone
  • Low-falling tone that maybe change to be a mid-dipping tone or high falling in negative sentences.
  • High-falling tone
  • Mid-dipping tone have 2 Allophones, such as "low-rising tone" that occur, when the Final consonant be a stop and "mid-dipping" that occur, when the Final consonant be the other types. Juidzi (talk) 14:43, 18 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Office of the Royal Society. Gong's writing system handbook by the Thai scripts of Office of the Royal Society. Bangkok : Office of the Royal Society, 2018, page 24.
  2. ^ a b Office of the Royal Society. Gong's writing system handbook by the Thai scripts of Office of the Royal Society. Bangkok : Office of the Royal Society, 2018, page 27.
  3. ^ Office of the Royal Society. Gong's writing system handbook by the Thai scripts of Office of the Royal. Bangkok : Office of the Royal Society, 2018, page 29.