| Language name: | KALA LAGAW YA |
| UPSID number: | 8365 |
| Alternate name(s): | MABUIAG, WESTERN TORRES STRAITS |
| Classification: | Australian, Pama-Nyungan |
| This language has | 24 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.510994087 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | b p g k m N w j i "e a "o u "@ tD t dD d s z n n_ r l |
| Comment: | Kala Lagaw Ya is spoken in the western Torres Straits Islands, north of Cape York, Australia. Vowel sequences ending with /i/ or /u/ are said to be single syllabic peaks but to be two segments (Kennedy 1981). |
| Source(s): | Kennedy, R.J. 1981. Phonology of Kala Lagaw Ya in Saibai dialect. Work Papers of SIL-AAB (Summer Institute of Linguistics -- Australian Aborigines Branch, Darwin). Series A, 5: 103-137. Wurm, S.A. 1972. Languages of Australia and Tasmania. Mouton, The Hague. |