| Language name: | KANAKURU |
| UPSID number: | 4370 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Afro-Asiatic, Chadic |
| This language has | 35 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.356604371 (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 g S m n nj N l lF w rA j gA i "e u "o "@ a i: "e: a: "o: u: b* d* dj mb nd ndj Ng |
| Comment: | Kanakuru has a two level tone system, with somewhat limited contrastive function. Newman recognizes 7 additional labialized consonant phonemes. As these are apparently identical to Cw sequences that are derived in Cui and Coi syllables they are interpreted as sequences here. |
| Source(s): | Newman, P. 1974. The Kanakuru Language. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. |