Language name: |
KORYAK |
UPSID number: |
2709 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
Chukchi-Kamchatkan |
This language has |
21 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.394256150 (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
q
?
tS
v
jF
gF
m
"n
N
"r
"l
lj
BA
i
"e
a+
"o
u
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Comment: |
Koryak is spoken by a few hundred people on the Kamchatka peninsula in the USSR. A vowel harmony process requires vowels in a word to belong to set 1 (i,u,e) or set 2 (e,o,a). Many transcriptions are given with a schwa vowel in Zhukova (1980) but their origin is not explained. Palatal laterals occur before most vowels but are described as "palatalized variants" of /l/. From the data available they appear contrastive. All consonants except /?/ can appear geminated. |
Source(s): |
Zhukova, A.N. 1980. Jazyk palanskikh Korjakov. Nauka, Leningrad. |