| Language name: | NDUT |
| UPSID number: | 4149 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, West Atlantic |
| This language has | 34 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.403873745 (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 c k ? b "d dj g b< "d< mb "nd ndj Ng f h "s gF m "n nj N "rr "l j w i e E a O u @ |
| Comment: | Ndut is spoken in Mont-Rolland, northwest of Thies in Senegal. The language appears to have 3 level tones. Consonant inventory has been inferred from the examples cited in Gueye (1986); some contrasts might have been missed. Velar and dental/alveolar prenasalized stops are assumed to occur although no examples are cited. The vowel system opposes [+ATR] i, e, u and schwa to the remainging [-ATR] vowels. |
| Source(s): | Gueye, G. 1986. Les correlats articulatoires et acoustiques de la distinction +/- ATR en Ndut. Travaux de l'Institut de Phonetique de Strasbourg, 18: 137-249. |