Language name: | MALAKMALAK |
UPSID number: | 8356 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Australian, Daly |
This language has | 19 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.458396546 (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 k m n N l r j w i a rA t_ n_ l_ o/_ E U |
Comment: | Stops are voiced intervocalically and after voiced consonants, voiceless elsewhere. Initially, single consonants or the vowels /E, a/ appear. There are a large number of medial clusters, seven clusters with a liquid as first member occur finally. |
Source(s): | Birk, D.B.W. 1975. The phonology of Malakmalak. Papers in Australian Linguistics 8 (Pacific Linguistics, Series A, 39): 59-78. Tryon, D.T. 1974. Daly Family Languages (Pacific Linguistics, Series C, 32). Australian National University, Canberra. |