![]() ![]() j/ and /l/ may occur as medials, but /j/ only after bilabial and velar stops and /m/, and /l/ only after bilabial stops and /m/. Sila has three lexical tonemes and two grammatical tonemes.Īll consonants can occur as onsets, with /m/ able to form a syllabic nasal. Sila diphthongs are /ɤi/, /ai/, /ao/, /oa/. l̥a33/ ‘to fall down’Īll vowels can be creaky vowels, which are contrastive. The palatal nasal is noted as /ɲ/ although the phonetic realisation is closer to, with the blade of the tongue remaining at a short distance from the palate. Unaspirated plosives are usually realised as voiced stops. ![]() Sila speakers are an officially recognized group in Vietnam, where they are known as the Si La. Sila (also called Sida ) is a Loloish language spoken by 2,000 people in Laos and Vietnam (Bradley 1997). ![]()
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