The Research In Muka Qiang Dialect

Muka Qiang Stockaded Village is part of Muca countryside, Aba Autonomous Prefecture. Muka Qiang dialect is in the transition region of two big Qiang dialect, south and north.On phonology, Muka Qiang dialect contain33Single consonants,17compound consonants and14diphthong. It has not tones distinguished significance with pitches, but has accents distinguished significance with stress,which is the biggest features that Muka Qiang dialect is similar to north Qiang and is different with south Qiang. On vocabulary, according to the semantic, Muka Qiang dialect is divided into nouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, measure words, etc.Nouns have sexual characteristics, the verb has not the word deformation, but can have additional elements expressed some grammar significance. Personal pronoun is spilt into singular, dual and plural. Numeral has also its own marks. The overlap of the adjective can express two kind of meanings, and added to exclusive marks, the adjective can express nonstatic action. Muka Qiang dialect has a large number of loanwords, some of which have gone deep into wood card vocabulary system.The morphological process of Muka Qiang dialect has two forms, derivation and Compounding. The most striking features about Muka Qiang dialect grammer is that it has syntactic markers which can mean some grammar significance. Some of these synatatic markers attached behind noun, some are verbs’prefix or suffix. But not all the use of these markers are with coerciveness, some markers’function has been weakening. Part of Chinese grammers’ elments are found in Muka dialect grammer, which is thus clear that the influence of Chinese grammer is also very deeply.