| Language name: | HAMER |
| UPSID number: | 4365 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Afro-Asiatic, Omotic |
| This language has | 35 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.357174533 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | b p b< d t d< c dj g g< q' ts z s S m n nj N w r[ l j h I9 "e9 O9 U9 i e a_ o u 49 k |
| Comment: | Plain and pharyngealized (possibly [-ATR]) vowels form vowel harmony sets. Plain vowels dominate in assimilation. Hamer is possibly tonal. |
| Source(s): | Lydall, J. 1976. Hamer. In M.L. Bender (ed.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing: 393-438. |