| Language name: | DIYARI |
| UPSID number: | 8367 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Australian, Pama-Nyungan |
| This language has | 25 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.401773836 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p tD t c t. k d. m nD n nj n. N lD l l. lj r j r.A w i a u rT |
| Comment: | Austin (1981) analyzes the alveolar trill /r/ as a stop /d/. This phoneme does not occur initially; intervocalically it is a trill; in post-nasal and post-lateral position it is a voiced stop with trilled release [dr]. This stop is considered epenthetic here. |
| Source(s): | Austin, P.A. 1981. A Grammar of Diyari, South Australia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York. |