Language name: | TIGRE |
UPSID number: | 4351 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic |
This language has | 33 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.300409864 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | b tD tD' dD k k' g ts' tS tS' dZ f s z S Z H 9 m nD l r ? h a+: "@ 3 u: "o: j w i: "e: |
Comment: | All consonants apparently may be geminate, though Palmer says /?,h,w,j/ are not phonetically long even when structurally geminate. |
Source(s): | Klingenheben, A. 1966. Deutsch-Amharischer Sprachfuhrer. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Palmer, F.R. 1962. The Morphology of the Tigre Noun. Oxford University Press, London. |