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| Selected languages: | Itelmen |
| UPSID number: | 2710 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Chukchi-Kamchatkan |
| The languages has | 32 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [p] [*t] [k] [q] [ʔ] [pʼ] [*tʼ] [kʼ] [qʼ] [ɬʲ] [ɮʲ] [*s] [*z] [ɸ] [β] [ʝ] [x] [ɣ] [χ] [tʃ] [*tsʼ] [*r] [l] [m] [*nʲ] [*n] [ŋ] [i] [u] [e̞] [o̞] [a] |
| Comments: | Itelmen is spoken by some older speakers on the west coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, USSR. Volodin (1976) describes a limited vowel harmony system based on height, /i,u/ -> /e,o/ and /e/ -> /a/ when a low(er) vowel follows. Glottal stop is largely found at morpheme boundaries. Several phonetic descriptions are vague; /a/ may be central or front, the lateral fricatives might not be actually fricative, the alveolar ejective affricate might be be palato-alveolar (it is described as contrasting with /tS/ by being non-palatalized). |
| Sources: | Volodin, A.P. 1976. Itel'menskij Jazyk. Nauka, Leningrad. |