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| Selected languages: | Nanai |
| UPSID number: | 2168 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Tungus |
| The languages has | 24 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [p] [b] [*t] [*d] [k] [ɡ] [*s] [β] [ʝ] [x] [tʃ] [dʒ] [*r] [*l] [m] [*n] [ɲ] [ŋ] [ɪ] [i] [u] [ɘ] [o] [ä] |
| Comments: | Nanai is spoken in the extreme Soviet far east, confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, scattered in Ussuri valley and Sikhote-alin, settled more densely in the Amur valley below Khabarovsk, in USSR. All vowels also appear long. Vn in final position -> V~. There are also 24 vowel combinations which Avrorin calls "diphthongs". Avrorin treats long vowels, nasalized vowels, and diphthongs as phonemic units, resulting in 42 vocalic phonemes. |
| Sources: | Avrorin, V.A. 1968. Nanajski jazyk. In V.V. Vinogradov (ed.), Jazyki Narodov SSSR, Vol. 5. Nauka, Leningrad and Moscow: 5: 129-48. |