Language name: |
KLAO |
UPSID number: |
4133 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
Niger-Kordofanian, Kru |
This language has |
27 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.338917632 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
"t
kp
b
"d
gb
cC
djjF
f
"s
w
i
e
"e
E
a
O
"o
o
u
i~
"e~
E~
a~
O~
"o~
u~
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Comment: |
Nasal consonants surface as the allophones of voiced plosives before nasalized vowels. [l] is the non-initial allophone of /d/. "e", "o", and a and their nasalized counterparts are [-ATR] according to Singler. |
Source(s): |
Singler, J.V. 1979. The segmental phonology of verb suffixes in Talo Klao (Kru). M.A. Thesis. University of California, Los Angeles. |