Language name: |
TEKE |
UPSID number: |
4127 |
Alternate name(s): |
KUKUYA |
Classification: |
Niger-Kordofanian, Bantoid |
This language has |
28 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.484241368 (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
m
f
mD
pf
bv
w
t
d
n
s
l
nj
tS
dZ
j
k
g
N
i
"e
a
"o
u
I
U
h
|
Comment: |
Stops and affricates also occur prenasalized but many of these occurrences result from prefixation, so all are analyzed as biphonemic; /g/ only occurs with a preceding nasal. The highest vowels /i, u/ occur distinctively only as first vowel in a CVV sequence and introduce fricative transitions on the preceding C. |
Source(s): |
Paulian, C. 1975. Le Kukya, Langue Teke du Congo (Bibliotheque de la SELAF 49-50). SELAF, Paris. |