Language name: NONI
UPSID number: 4139
Alternate name(s):
Classification: Niger-Kordofanian, Bantoid
This language has 33 segments
Its Frequency index is 0.376201035 (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 tS dZ f "s S m "n nj N "l j w i U o "@ E O a i: u: o: "e: E: O: a: gA
Comment: Noni has 3 level tones. All two-tone sequences apart from MH also occur on monosyllables. Short /U/ conditions a labio-dental fricative offglide from a preceding stop.
Source(s): Hyman, L.M. 1981. Noni Grammatical Structure, with special rreference to verb morphology. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics no.9

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