Language name: | KIRGHIZ |
UPSID number: | 2162 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Turkic |
This language has | 30 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.341906874 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p q tS f S x m N I y E U j B o/ I_ o tD a_ k dD b g G ts s z n r l |
Comment: | Kirghiz is spoken in Kirghiz ASSR, mountains of southern Soviet middle Asia. |
Source(s): | Herbert, R.J. and Poppe, N. 1963. Kirghiz Manual (Indiana University Publications, Uralic and Altaic Series 33). Indiana University, Bloomington. Junusaliev, B.M. 1966. Kirgizskij Jazyk, in V.V. Vinogradov (ed.), Jazyki Narodov SSSR: Vol 2. Tjurkskie Jazyki. Nauka, Moscow and Leningrad. |