| Language name: | CHAM |
| UPSID number: | 2411 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, West Malayo-Polynesian |
| This language has | 32 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.405695676 (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 c ch k kh ? m nj N h w j i e E a O o u i_ "@ S t th b* d* n r[ l i@ u@ |
| Comment: | Cham is spoken mostly in Kampuchea but there are several speakers in Vietnam. Retroflex stops and fricatives occur and are interpreted by Blood (1967) as clusters of alveolars with /r/ even though the main allophone of /r/ is an alveolar flap. However, other obstruents occur in clusters with /r/ and there is a gap for /tr/ etc. Laryngealized /b,d/ vary with plain voiced [b,d]. Cham has a two-level tone system. |
| Source(s): | Blood, D.L. 1967. Phonological units in Cham. Anthropological Linguistics 9: 15-32. |