| Language name: | NGANASAN |
| UPSID number: | 2157 |
| Alternate name(s): | TAVGY |
| Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Samoyed |
| This language has | 29 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.403012463 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b "t "d c dj k g ? m "n nj N 6D kx "s "l lj "r j i y i_ u "e "@ "o a a+ |
| Comment: | Nganasan is spoken in Taymyr eninsula, Siberia, USSR. Northenmost people ini th eUSSR near Yakut, Dolgan and Evenki people. Tereshchenko (1979) notes a large number of diphthongs. At least some of these result from joining stem vowel and suffix vowel together. For this reason they have been treated here as sequences. |
| Source(s): | Castren, M.A. 1966. Grammatik der Samojedischen Sprachen (Indiana University Publications, Uralic and Altaic Series 53 [Reprint of 1854 edition, St. Petersburg]). Indiana University, Bloomington. Tereshchenko, N.M. 1966. Nganasanskij jazyk. In V.V. Vinogradov (ed.), Jazyki Narodov SSSR, Vol. 3. Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad: 438-57. Tereshchenko, N.M. 1979. Nganasanskij Jazyk. Nauka, Leningrad. |