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Jaintia language

Pnar
Pnar
Native to India, Bangladesh
Ethnicity Pnar people
Native speakers
250,000 (2001)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog pnar1238
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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)


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