Language name: KLAO
UPSID number: 4133
Alternate name(s):
Classification: Niger-Kordofanian, Kru
This language has 27 segments
Its Frequency index is 0.338917632 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments)
The language has these sounds: p "t kp b "d gb cC djjF f "s w i e "e E a O "o o u i~ "e~ E~ a~ O~ "o~ u~
Comment: Nasal consonants surface as the allophones of voiced plosives before nasalized vowels. [l] is the non-initial allophone of /d/. "e", "o", and a and their nasalized counterparts are [-ATR] according to Singler.
Source(s): Singler, J.V. 1979. The segmental phonology of verb suffixes in Talo Klao (Kru). M.A. Thesis. University of California, Los Angeles.

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