Choni (ཅོ་ནེ་)

Choni is a Tibetic language spoken by about 150,000 people in Jonê County (卓尼县) in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘南藏族自治州) in the southeast of Gansu Province (甘肃省) in western China.

Choni is also known as Chona, Chone, Jone, Thewo, Thewo-Chone or Cone Tibetan. It can be written with the Tibetan alphabet.

Choni alphabet

Download an alphabet chart for Choni (Excel)

Links

Information about the Choni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choni_language
http://olac.ldc.upenn.edu/language/cda
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/cda
https://www.academia.edu/986596/A_phonological_profile_of_Cone

Bodish (Tibeto-Kanauri) languages

Amdo Tibetan, Choni, Dzongkha, Jirel, Kagate, Khams Tibetan, Khengkha, Ladakhi, Lhowa, Sherpa, Sikkimese, Tibetan, Tshangla

Languages written with the Tibetan alphabet

Amdo Tibetan, Balti, Bokar, Chocha Ngacha, Choni, Dzongkha (Bhutanese), Jirel, Khams Tibetan, Khengkha, Ladakhi, Sikkimese, Tibetan, Sherpa, Tamang, Tshangla

Page created: 31.12.23. Last modified: 31.01.24

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