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Selected languages: | Nenets |
UPSID number: | 2156 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Samoyed |
The languages has | 35 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [??] [pʲ] [bʲ] [p] [b] [*tʲ] [*t] [k] [ʔ] [*sʲ] [*s] [β] [ðʲ] [ð] [x] [*tsʲ] [*ts] [*rʲ] [*r] [*lʲ] [*l] [j] [mʲ] [m] [*nʲ] [*n] [ŋ] [ĭ] [i] [ŭ] [u] [e̞] [o̞] [ä̆] [ä] |
Comments: | Nenets is spoken in the northwest Siberia, USSR. |
Sources: | Decsy, G. 1966. Yurak Chrestomathy (Indiana University Hajdu, P. 1963. The Samoyed Peoples and Languages (Indiana Katz, H. 1975a. Generative phonologie und phonologische Ristinen, E.K. 1965. On the phonemes of Nenets. Restinen, E.K. 1968. Problems concerning vowel length in Tereshchenko, N.M. 1966. Enetskij Jazyk. In V.V. |