Bokar language
Tani language spoken in Tibet and India
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Bokar or Bokar-Ramo (IPA: [bɔk˭ar ɡɔm]; pinyin: Bogar Luoba) is a Tani language spoken by the Lhoba in West Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India (Megu 1990) and Nanyi Township 南伊珞巴民族乡, Mainling County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Ouyang 1985).
| Bokar | |
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| Bokar-Ramo | |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh, Tibet |
| Ethnicity | Lhoba |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | boka1249 |
| ELP | Bokar |
 Bokar is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
The Ramo dialect is spoken in Mechukha Subdivision and Monigong Circle (Badu 2004).
Phonology
Consonants
- The pronunciation of /ɕ/ may vary between [ɕ] and [s] among different dialects.
- Some speakers may also pronounce /tɕ/ as [ts] when preceding vowels other than /i/.
- /h/ can be realized as either voiced [ɦ] or [h], when preceding /i/.
- Stops /p t k/ are heard as unreleased [p̚ t̚ k̚] in word-coda position.
- A retroflex affricate /tʂ/ can also occur only from Tibetan loanwords.[1][2]
Vowels
- /ɯ/ can also be heard as more central [ɨ].[3]
- /o/ is heard as more open and nasalized before /ŋ/ as [ɔ̃ŋ].
Writing system
Bokar is written in the Latin script in India and the Tibetan script in China.[4]
| IPA | a | b | t͡ɕ | ʈ͡ʂ | d | e | ə | g | h | ɦ | i | ɯ | d͡ʑ | k | l | m | n | ŋ | n̠ʲ | o | p | r | ɕ | t | u | w | j | ʔ |
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| Latin | a | b | c | ch | d | e | ë | g | h | hh | i | ï | j | k | l | m | n | ng | ny | o | p | r | s | t | u | w | y | ' |
| Tibetan | ཨ | བ | ཙ | ཅ | ད | ཨེ | ག | ཧ | འ | ཨི | ཇ | ཀ | ལ | མ | ན | ང | ཉ | ཨོ | པ | ར | ས | ཏ | ཨུ | ཝ | ཡ | N/A | ||
Dipthongs are written as a digraph of there vowels, <y> is used to mark palatalization.
Glottal stops before vowels are unwritten in tibetan.
