Pnar | |
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Pnar | |
Native to | India, Bangladesh |
Ethnicity | Pnar people |
Native speakers
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250,000 (2001) |
Austroasiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | pnar1238 |
Pnar (also known as Jaintia or Synteng) is an Austroasiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
Pnar has 30 phonemes: 7 vowels and 23 consonants. Other sounds listed below are phonetic realizations.
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)