Hrangkhol language

Hrangkhol
Hrangkhawl
Native to	India and Burma
Region	Tripura, southeast Manipur, parts of Assam
Native speakers	(19,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin-Naga Kuki-Chin Central Hmar Hrangkhol
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hra
Glottolog	hran1239

Hrangkhol, Hrangkhawl belongs to the Mizo languages spoken by the Hrangkhawl people mainly in Assam and Tripura states in India, with a minority living in Manipur and Mizoram. It is closely related with Khawsak dialect/Literary Kukis because, as each of the 20+ Kukis subtribes had their own dialect, over time they developed a lingua-franca, a common language for them all which today is known as "Khawsak țawng/Kukis țawng".

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Open	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Close		a

All monophthongs occur in initial, medial, and final positions. Hrangkhol also has five diphthongs, /ai/, /ei/, /əi/, /oi/, and /ui/. /ui/ and /ai/ occur in all positions, while /ei/, /əi/, and /oi/ only occur in medial and final positions.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		kʰ
	voiceless	p	t	t͡ʃ	k
	voiced	b	d		g
Fricative	voiceless		s			h
	voiced	v	z
Trill			r
Approximant			l		w

All consonants occur in initial and medial positions, however only /p/, /t/, /k/, /r/, /l/, /m/, /n/, and /ŋ/ can occur as a coda. Hrangkhol also has stop-liquid clusters in syllable initial positions such as in klek "noise", and rtai "run". Consonant sequences between syllabic boundaries are also common, typically occurring in medial positions.

Tone

Hrangkhol distinguishes between high and low tones, which are marked with an acute and a grave respectively.