Language name: | WIK-MUNKAN |
UPSID number: | 8358 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Australian, Pama-Nyungan |
This language has | 18 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.527469820 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p k ? m N j w t_ n_ i E a O U t n r l |
Comment: | Non-glottal stops have voiced allophones following nasals and (usually) intervocalically. All five vowels occur long and short. |
Source(s): | McConnel, U.H. 1945. Wikmunkan phonetics. Oceania 15/4: 353-375. Sayers, B. and Godfrey, M. 1964. Outline description of the alphabet and grammar of a dialect of Wik-Munkan, spoken at Coen, North Queensland. Occasional Papers in Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. no. 2: 49-65. |