| Choni | |
|---|---|
| Thewo-Chone Cone Tibetan | |
| Pronunciation | Choni pronunciation: [tɕɔᴸnɛ] |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Gansu, Sichuan |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2004) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cda |
| Glottolog | chon1285 |
| ELP | Choni |
 Choni is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Choni (Jonê) and Thewo are dialects of a Tibetic language spoken in western China in the vicinity of Jonê County.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | (Alveolo-) Palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
tenuis | p | t | t͡s | t͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | k | (q) | |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | t͡sʰ | t͡ʂʰ | t͡ɕʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | b | d | d͡z | d͡ʐ | d͡ʑ | ɡ | |||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿd͡z | ⁿd͡ʐ | ⁿd͡ʑ | ᵑɡ | |||
| Fricative | tenuis | ɬ | s | ʂ | ɕ | x | (χ) | h | |
| aspirated | sʰ | ʂʰ | ɕʰ | xʰ | |||||
| voiced | r̝ | z | (ʐ) | ʑ | ɣ | (ʁ) | |||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | nasal | short | long | short | long | nasal | |
| Close | i | iː | ĩː | ʉ | ʉː | u | uː | (ũː) |
| ɪ | ɪː | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | eː | ẽː | o | oː | õː | ||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | æ | ã | ãː | ɑ | ɑː | |||
Choni has two contrasting tones, which are realized differently on long and short vowels. They are word tones, with predictable realizations on the second syllable of a morpheme.