| Language name: | NEPALI |
| UPSID number: | 2023 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Indo-European, Indic |
| This language has | 39 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.302916596 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p tD t. k ph tDh t.h kh b dD d. g bh dDh d.h gh ts tsh dz dzh h s m nD N r[ l i "e a "o u "@ i~ "e~ a~ "o~ u~ "@~ |
| Comment: | Nearly all sequences of the six oral vowels are reported; syllabification of such sequences seems to be variable. Nasalized nonlow vowels are less clearly contrastive than the low one -- some words show variation between final nasalized vowel and final nasal consonant. |
| Source(s): | Bandhu, C.M., Dahal, B.M., Holzhausen, A., Hale, A. 1971. Nepali Segmental Phonology. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur. |