Language name: | SANGO |
UPSID number: | 4143 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Adamawa |
This language has | 37 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.363576437 (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 kp b "d g gb mb "nd Ng Nmgb b< f v S Z nZ m "n l j w i e E a O o u u~ E~ O~ a~ mv l.[ h |
Comment: | Sango has 3 level tones. The segments analyzed here as palato-alveolars are described as "similar to but not identical with" English palato-alveolars. |
Source(s): | Samarin. 1967. Basic course in Sango. Samarin. 1967b. A grammar of Sango. |