Language name: |
IRANXE |
UPSID number: |
6845 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
South American, Macro-Tucanoan |
This language has |
39 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.314571607 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
pW
"t
"tW
k
kJ
?
b
bW
"d
h
"s
S
m
mW
"n
"r[
"l
j
w
hw
i
i_
u
E
O
a
i~
i_~
u~
E~
O~
a~
i_i
ai
Oi
i_i~
ai~
Oi~
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Comment: |
Iranxe voiced bilabial stops occur only word initially, and are optionally prenasalized but they contrast with nasals before both oral and nasalized vowels. Nasalized vowels before stops have a nasal consonant offset. Vowels (but not diphthongs apparently) occur both long and short. Labialisation of bilabials and in /tW/ is replaced by palatalization when the following vowel is /u/. |
Source(s): |
Meader, R.E. 1967. Iranxe: notas gramaticais e lista vocabular. (Publicacoes serie diversos linguistica II.) Museu Nacional (+ Univ. federal do Rio de Janeiro?), Rio de Janeiro. |