| Language name: | ANGAS |
| UPSID number: | 4367 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| 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. |