Language name: |
NANAI |
UPSID number: |
2168 |
Alternate name(s): |
GOLDI |
Classification: |
Ural-Altaic, Tungus |
This language has |
24 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.432926829 (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
B
"s
jF
tS
dZ
x
m
"n
nj
N
"l
"r
i
a
o
u
@
I
|
Comment: |
Nanai is spoken in the extreme Soviet far east, confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, scattered in Ussuri valley and Sikhote-alin, settled more densely in the Amur valley below Khabarovsk, in USSR. All vowels also appear long. Vn in final position -> V~. There are also 24 vowel combinations which Avrorin calls "diphthongs". Avrorin treats long vowels, nasalized vowels, and diphthongs as phonemic units, resulting in 42 vocalic phonemes. |
Source(s): |
Avrorin, V.A. 1968. Nanajski jazyk. In V.V. Vinogradov (ed.), Jazyki Narodov SSSR, Vol. 5. Nauka, Leningrad and Moscow: 5: 129-48. |