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    f v     s z             x ɣ             h  
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Selected languages: Brahui
UPSID number: 2917
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Dravidian, Brahui
The languages has 33 segments
Frequency index: N/A
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Sources:

De Armond, R.C. 1975. Some rules of Brahui conjugation. In
H.G. Schiffman and C.M. Eastman (eds.), Dravidian
Phonological Systems. University of Washington Press,
Seattle.

Emeneau, M.B. 1937. Phonetic observations on the Brahui
language. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies 8:
981-3.

Emeneau, M.B. 1962. Brahui and Dravidian Comparative
Grammar. University of California Publications in
Linguistics 27. University of California Press, Berkeley.