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p b         *t *d             k ɡ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Nasal
  m           *n           ɲ   ŋ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
              *r            
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
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Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
  β                       ʝ x                  
Sibilant fricatives
            *s                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                                               
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      *l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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:
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.