Language name: | AINU |
UPSID number: | 2140 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Ainu |
This language has | 16 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.630820399 (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 tS s m n h i E a u O j w r[ |
Comment: | Ainu is spoken rpimarily in Japan, but th ere are a few speakers in USSR. /j,w/ can precede or follow most vowels. |
Source(s): | Patrie, J. 1982. The genetic relationship of the Ainu Language. University Press of Hawaii. Simeon, G. 1969. Hokkaido Ainu phonemics. Journal of the American Oriental Society 89: 751-7. |