Language name: DANGALEAT
UPSID number: 4374
Alternate name(s): DANGLA
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Chadic
This language has 28 segments
Its Frequency index is 0.433322775 (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 c k b "d dj g b< "d< dj< S Z m "n nj N "r l_ j w i e E a O o u
Comment: Dangaleat is spoken in a mountainous area of central Chad near Mongo. There are 2 level tones. Vowels appear both long and short in the first syllable of words. All consonants can be geminated.
Source(s): Fedry, J. 1977. Apercu sur la phonologie et la tonologie de quatre langues du groupe "Mubi-Karbo" (Guera) (Dangaleat-est, Dangaleat-ouest, Bidiyo, Dyongor). Etudes Phonologiques Chadiennes, Caprile.

Report a bug