Monguor language

A division into two languages, namely Mongghul in Huzhu Tu Autonomous County and Mangghuer in Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, is considered necessary by some linguists. While Mongghul was under strong influence from Amdo Tibetan, the same holds for Mangghuer and Sinitic languages, and local varieties of Chinese such as the Gangou language were in turn influenced by Monguor.

Phonology

Vowels

• Vowel sounds may also be nasalized when preceding a nasal consonant, in different environments.
• Vowels may also undergo a devoicing process in certain phonetic environments.

Consonants

• can also be heard as allophones or , occurring in free variation.
• can be heard as a voiced fricative within the onset of a stressed syllable, or of a word-initial syllable. It can also be heard as a flap sound intervocalically in the onset of an unstressed syllable. In a syllable-coda position, it is heard as a rhotic vowel sound.
• can have a spirantized allophone of strongly in stressed syllables.