Yoy language
Yoy is a Tai language of Thailand and Laos. The Yoy language is now in the critical endangered state due to a rapid language shift, which may eventually lead to complete language loss.[3]
Yoy | |
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Native to | Thailand, Laos |
Native speakers | (6,000 cited 1990–1995)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yoy |
Glottolog | yoyy1238 |
Phonology
The phonology of Yoy, according to Phakkahn (2017).[3]
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||
Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
Voiced | b | d | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Affricate | tɕ | |||||
Approximant | w | l | j | |||
Only /p t k ʔ m n ŋ j w/ occur in word-final position. Yoy also has six initial consonant clusters which are /tw-/, /kw-/, /kw-/, /sw-/, /hw-/, and /bw-/.
Some words show alternate pronunciations between the initial syllable consonants:
- /jaːk⁵/ ~ /ɲaːk⁵/ to want
- /jaːw²/ ~ /ɲaːw²/ long
- /joːj⁴/ ~ /ɲoːj⁴/ Yoy
Vowels
Yoy has two different phonemic vowel lengths. There are nine short vowels and nine long vowels. In the word-final open syllables, there is no contrast between short and long vowels, but in closed syllables and non-final open syllables, short and long vowels are distinctive.[3] TonesYoy has five phonologically distinctive tones in non-checked syllables. Checked syllables in Yoy can carry only tone 1 (mid-leveled tone), tone 2 (high-rising tone), and tone 5 (low-falling creaky).[3] VocabularyNumberals
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