| Language name: | IRAQW |
| UPSID number: | 4360 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic |
| This language has | 45 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.290662725 (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 b< t d d< k kW g gW q ts' tlF' f s s: S x xW H 99 m n N qW NW l hlF rr ? h i: I e: E 3 a u: U o: O a_: j w @) |
| Comment: | Whitely implies that the voiced implosives may be contrastive morphophonologically but Chris Ehret (p.c.) considers them as free variants of voiced plosives. Non-low central vowels may be derived, leaving a five-vowel long/short basic system. Iraqw probably has a two-level tone system. |
| Source(s): | Whiteley, W.H. 1958. A Short Description of Item Categories in Iraqw. East African Institute of Social Research, Kampala. |