Language name: |
ANGAS |
UPSID number: |
4367 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
Afro-Asiatic, Chadic |
This language has |
43 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.341308720 (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<
c
dj
dj<
k
g
tS
dZ
f
v
s
z
S
Z
gF
m
n
nj
N
l
r
h
i:
I
E
i_:
a
a:
u
u:
j
w
3i
e
o
pJ
bJ
mJ
|
Comment: |
Angas has 3 level tones. Burquest reports many consonants with a labialized offglide. These are treated as Cw clusters. Palatalization only occurs with bilabials and, under an analysis which treats the palatals as palatalized velars, with velars and is treated as a segmental feature. |
Source(s): |
Burquest, D.A. 1971. A Preliminary Study of Angas Phonology. Institute of Linguistics, Zaria. |