| Language name: | EYAK |
| UPSID number: | 6109 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Na-Dene, Eyak |
| This language has | 45 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.227297364 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | "th kh qh ? "t' k' q' "d g gW G "tsh tSh "ts' tS' "dz dZ "tlFh "tlF' "dlF x xW X h "s S "hlF m "n "l j w i E u i~ a_~ u~ i: E: a_: u: i~: a_~: u~: |
| Comment: | Krauss (1965) reported that there were "3 persons capable of serving adequately as informants for Eyak". Apart from loanwords /m,n/ "could be interpreted as w and l respectively, followed by a nasalized vowel". Short oral vowels are often in free variation, the non-high vowel variation being obscurely described. Krauss includes 'aspiration' and 'glottalization' of vowels as modifications similar to length and nasalization. Since there are consonants /h,?/, and verb stems in -V:? ("long glottalized nucleus") seem to count as closed, these are interpreted as postvocalic -h and -?. |
| Source(s): | Krauss, M.E. 1965. Eyak: a preliminary report. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/RCL 10:2,3: 167-187. |