| Language name: | LENAKEL |
| UPSID number: | 2426 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, East Malayo-Polynesian |
| This language has | 21 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.493717664 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p pW t k f h s m mW n N r[ l gA w i "e a "o u "@ |
| Comment: | Lenakel is spoken in the west-central part of the island of Tanna in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). Schwa is higher after an alveolar consonant; other nonlow vowels are lower in closed than in open syllables. Sequences of nasal or liquid + h become voiceless nasal or liquid. |
| Source(s): | Lynch, J. 1978. A Grammar of Lenakel (Pacific Linguistics, Series B, 55). Australian National University, Canberra. |