| Language name: | SEDANG |
| UPSID number: | 2304 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Asiatic, Bahnaric |
| This language has | 55 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.246401935 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p ph mb "t "th "nd "d* k kh Ng tS ndZ "s S m m* hm "n "n* "hn nj nj* N N* hN "l "l* "hl "r "r* "hr ? h i i* e e* E E* a a* u u* o o* O O* j w hw w* b* hnj j* hj |
| Comment: | Sedang is spoken in Gia Lai-Cong Tum Province in Vietnam. Smith reports highly restricted nasalized vowels, after /h,?/ only. There are complex relationships between laryngealization of vowels, allowable final consonants and vowel diphthongization. In closed syllables, laryngealized vowels occur only before /j,w/ and nasals. These syllables could be interpreted as terminating with laryngealized consonants, but in open syllables plain and laryngealized vowels contrast and both differ from final -? and -h syllables. |
| Source(s): | Smith, K.D. 1968. Laryngealization and de-laryngealization in Sedang phonemics. Linguistics 38: 52-69. |