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. |