| Language name: | IRANXE |
| UPSID number: | 6845 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | South American, Macro-Tucanoan |
| This language has | 39 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.314571607 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p pW "t "tW k kJ ? b bW "d h "s S m mW "n "r[ "l j w hw i i_ u E O a i~ i_~ u~ E~ O~ a~ i_i ai Oi i_i~ ai~ Oi~ |
| Comment: | Iranxe voiced bilabial stops occur only word initially, and are optionally prenasalized but they contrast with nasals before both oral and nasalized vowels. Nasalized vowels before stops have a nasal consonant offset. Vowels (but not diphthongs apparently) occur both long and short. Labialisation of bilabials and in /tW/ is replaced by palatalization when the following vowel is /u/. |
| Source(s): | Meader, R.E. 1967. Iranxe: notas gramaticais e lista vocabular. (Publicacoes serie diversos linguistica II.) Museu Nacional (+ Univ. federal do Rio de Janeiro?), Rio de Janeiro. |