| Language name: | AGHEM |
| UPSID number: | 4134 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Bantoid |
| This language has | 35 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.394615141 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | t k kp ? b d g gb m n nj N Nm gF s z bv ts tS dz dZ l j w i I e E a a_) O o U u f |
| Comment: | Aghem has two level tones. A falling tone is derived when high spreads to a following low tone syllable. Long vowels and diphthongs seem best treated as vowel sequences. They carry a single tone but often derive from affixation or loss of intervocalic consonants. Phonetic [p] is analyzed as the allophone of /kp/ before [u]. |
| Source(s): | Hyman, L.M. 1979. Part I: Phonology and noun structure. In L.M. Hyman (ed.), Aghem grammatical structure. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics No. 7, June 1979. |