Language name: SEBEI
UPSID number: 4209
Alternate name(s): SAPINY, KUPSAPINY
Classification: Nilo-Saharan, East Sudanic
This language has 26 segments
Its Frequency index is 0.391181989 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments)
The language has these sounds: p m w "t "s "n "l "r[ "r c nj j k N i a e O o "@S i_S "@)S 4S u u+S 4)S
Comment: The overshort vowels are described as reduced and centralized. They do not occur word-finally but are contrastive elsewhere.
Source(s): Montgomery, C. 1970. Problems in the development of an orthography for the Sebei language of Uganda. Journal of the Language Association of East Africa 1: 48-55.

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