PHONOLOGICAL SKETCH AND CLASSIFICATION OF LAWU, AN UNDOCUMENTED NGWI LANGUAGE OF YUNNAN

Lawu is a severely endangered, undocumented Ngwi (Loloish) language spoken in Yunnan, China.This paper presents a preliminary sketch of Lawu phonology based on lexico-phonetic data recorded from two speakers in 2008, with special attention to the tone splits and mergers that distinguish Lawu from other Ngwi languages.All Serving Pitchers tone categ

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