Wiktionary:Narua entry guidelines
This page deals with the specific issues of Narua (also known as Na or Mosuo) entries on Wiktionary.
Orthography
[edit]Na is usually an unwritten language. A couple of traditional glyphs exist, that may or may not point to an earlier script similar to Dongba.[1].
The largest dictionary of the language, Michaud et al. (2024)[2], uses an earlier proposed orthography by Dobbs & Yan (2018)[3] Wiktionary uses this same orthography, which has the following overall tendencies:
| stop | fricative | approximant | nasal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aspirated | voiceless | voiced | voiceless | voiced | |||
| labial | p /pʰ/ | b /p/ | bb /b/ | f /f/ | v /v̩/ | m /m/ | |
| dental | c /tsʰ/ | z /ts/ | zz /dz/ | s /s/ | ss /z/ | l /l/ | |
| alveolar | t /tʰ/ | d /t/ | dd /d/ | lh /ɬ/ | n /n/ | ||
| retroflex | ch /tʂʰ/ | zh /tʂ/ | zzh /dʐ/ | sh /ʂ/ | r /ʐ/ | ||
| palatal | q /tɕʰ/ | j /tɕ/ | jj /dʑ/ | x /ɕ/ | xx /ʑ/ | y /j/ | ny /ɲ/ |
| velar | k /kʰ/ | g /k/ | gg /ɡ/ | h /h/ | hr /ɣ/ | ng /ŋ/ | |
| uvular | kh /qʰ/ | gh /q/ | w (hr) /ʁ/ | ||||
| front | central | back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| high | ie (ee, i) /i/ | eu (u) /v̩/ | u /u/ | ee (i) /ɯ/ |
| mid | ei /e/ | e /ə/ | e /ɤ/ | eo /o/ |
| low | ae /æ/ | er (eu) /ɻ̩/ | a /ɑ/ | |
Tone is usually not indicated, except low tone in monosyllabic roots, which is marked by a word-final -q. Nasalisation is marked with final -n.
References
[edit]- ^ Jingyi Liao, Yingqi Liu (2023) “An Analysis of Mosuo Writing System in a Sociolinguistics Context”, in The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies,
- ^ Alexis Michaud et al. (2024) Na (Mosuo) – English – Chinese dictionary[1]
- ^ Roselle Dobbs, Xiong Yan (2018) Yongning Narua orthography: users’ guide and developers’ notes[2]