Language name: |
CHAM |
UPSID number: |
2411 |
Alternate name(s): |
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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@
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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. |