Language name: IATE
UPSID number: 6870
Alternate name(s): FULNIO
Classification: South American, Macro-Ge
This language has 30 segments
Its Frequency index is 0.322099039 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments)
The language has these sounds: p "t c k ? ph "th ch kh "ts "tsh djjF hh m "n "l lj i e E a O o u i~ e~ a~ o~ u~ cC
Comment: Iate is spoken in Pernambuco, Brazil. It is not clear from Lapenda's description whether more of the complex consonants could be analyzed as sequences.
Source(s): Lapenda, G. 1968. Estrutura da Lingua Iate: Falada pelos indios Fulnios em Pernambuco. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife.

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