Language name: EVEN
UPSID number: 2167
Alternate name(s): LAMUT
Classification: Ural-Altaic, Tungus
This language has 27 segments
Its Frequency index is 0.365689414 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments)
The language has these sounds: p b "t "d k g tS dZ s m "n nj N "l "r j I9 U9 I E u "o ie ia+ a_ O9 BA
Comment: Even is spoken in the Yakut ASSR and the Kamchatka Peninsula of the USSR and along the Okhotsk Artic coast. All simple vowels can appear long. Low vowel /a_/ is grouped with the pharyngealized vowels to form one set of harmonizing vowels. /k/ is uvular before this set of vowels.
Source(s): Novikova, K.A. 1960. Ocherki dialektov Evenskogo Jazyka: Ol'skij Govor 1. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow and Leningrad.

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