Language name: |
BATS |
UPSID number: |
2604 |
Alternate name(s): |
BATSBIJ |
Classification: |
Caucasian |
This language has |
45 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.238580931 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
ph
tDh
kh
qh
?
b
dD
g
p'
tD'
k'
q'
tDsh
tSh
dDz
dZ
tDs'
tS'
P
X
H
B
RF
sD
S
zD
Z
m
j
i
E
a_
o
u
i~
e~
a_~
o~
u~
hlF
n
r
l
99
h
|
Comment: |
Bats is spoken in the Akhmetsk region of northern Georgia, USSR. Nasalized vowels only occur in a few inflectional endings but contrast with vowel + nasal. Desheriev (1953) also notes 3 long vowels but at least some examples are clearly just juxtapositions of two separate vowels. Similarly the diphthongs he reports seem to be a sequence of two adjacent vowels. Especially restricted are the "nasalized diphthongs" which all end in nasalized 'i' and occur only in inflectional endings. |
Source(s): |
Desheriev, J.D. 1953. Batsbijskij Jazyk. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow. |