Language name: | TIRURAY |
UPSID number: | 2431 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Austro-Tai, West Malayo-Polynesian |
This language has | 22 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.542229389 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | t k ? b d g P h s m n N r l j w i i_ u E O a |
Comment: | Tiruray is spoken in Cotabato province, south-west Mindanao, Philippines. /w/ is described by Post (1966) as a 'bilabial nonsyllabic vocoid' and as a 'back vocoid' -- presumably it is labial-velar. |
Source(s): | Post, U.R. 1966. The phonology of Tiruray. Philippine Journal of Science 95/3: 563-75. Schlegel, S.A. 1971. Tiruray-English Lexicon. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. |