| Language name: | NANAI |
| UPSID number: | 2168 |
| Alternate name(s): | GOLDI |
| Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Tungus |
| This language has | 24 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.432926829 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b "t "d k g B "s jF tS dZ x m "n nj N "l "r i a o u @ I |
| Comment: | Nanai is spoken in the extreme Soviet far east, confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, scattered in Ussuri valley and Sikhote-alin, settled more densely in the Amur valley below Khabarovsk, in USSR. All vowels also appear long. Vn in final position -> V~. There are also 24 vowel combinations which Avrorin calls "diphthongs". Avrorin treats long vowels, nasalized vowels, and diphthongs as phonemic units, resulting in 42 vocalic phonemes. |
| Source(s): | Avrorin, V.A. 1968. Nanajski jazyk. In V.V. Vinogradov (ed.), Jazyki Narodov SSSR, Vol. 5. Nauka, Leningrad and Moscow: 5: 129-48. |