| Language name: | AWIYA |
| UPSID number: | 4359 |
| Alternate name(s): | AWNGI |
| Classification: | Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic |
| This language has | 35 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.373139056 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b "t d. k kW g gW q qW G GW "ts "dz tS dZ f "s "z S m "n N NW "l "r[ i "e i_ a u "o j w aa |
| Comment: | "Length is relevant for consonants, but geminate consonants occur relatively seldom." (Hetzron) 'Ash' can be derived from "a palatal element and /a/ at a morpheme boundary" but some forms are fossilized and can be cited to justify the 6-vowel analysis. Probably tonal. |
| Source(s): | Hetzron, R. 1969. The Verbal System of Southern Agaw. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. |