Language name: |
AGHEM |
UPSID number: |
4134 |
Alternate name(s): |
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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. |