| Language name: | BIROM |
| UPSID number: | 4120 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Plateau |
| This language has | 29 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.474195275 (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 m f v kp gb w t d n s z c dj j k g N h i e E a O o u l r |
| Comment: | Birom has 3 level tones. Palatal stops are "lightly affricated" (Bouquiaux). A large number of Cw and Cj sequences are created by noun class infixes -w- and -j-. These are not interpreted as labialized or palatalized consonants. |
| Source(s): | Boquiaux, L. 1970. La Langue Birom (Nigeria septentrional) Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntaxe. Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liege, Liege. Wolff, H. 1959. Subsystem typologies and area linguistics. Anthropological Linguistics 1/7: 1-88. |