Choni language

Choni (Jonê) and Thewo are dialects of a Tibetic language spoken in western China in the vicinity of Jonê County.

Choni has four contrastive aspirated fricatives:, ,.

Phonology

 * is phonetically a fricativized alveolar trill, and may be heard as as an allophone.
 * A syllable-initial can be heard as a uvular fricative  before voiceless consonants and as a voiced  before voiced consonants. A syllable-final  can be heard as a uvular stop  after  or  vowel sounds.
 * can also be heard as an allophone of between  or  and another vowel.


 * rarely exists as a phoneme, and is only attested in a few words with a palatal or alveolo-palatal initial.