Language name: |
MAXAKALI |
UPSID number: |
6858 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
South American, Macro-Ge |
This language has |
20 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.353325942 (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
k
?
mb
nd
Ng
tS
ndZ
h
i
"e
a
"o
uu
i~
"e~
a~
"o~
uu~
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Comment: |
Maxakali is spoken in northeastern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Prenasalized stops, except the velar one, lose their stop component before nasalized vowels. The voiceless affricate is often just a fricative. Syllable-final consonants can be replaced by a "cognate vowel" especially when followed by a homorganic consonant. |
Source(s): |
Gudschinsky, S.C. Popovich, F. and Popovich, H. 1970. Native reaction and phonetic similarity in Maxakali phonology. Language 46/1. |