| 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. |