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| Selected languages: | Songhai |
| UPSID number: | 4200 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Nilo-Saharan, Songhai |
| The languages has | 24 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [b] [t] [d] [k] [ɡ] [s] [z] [f] [R] [l] [w] [j] [m] [n] [ŋ] [ũ] [õ] [ẽ̞] [ä̃] [i] [u] [o] [e̞] [ä] |
| Comments: | Prost description of vowels suggests the possibility of a larger number of mid vowels. Nasalized vowels occur without an adjoining nasal consonant only in a few uncommon words. |
| Sources: | Prost, A. 1956. La Langue Songay et ses Dialectes (Memoires de l'Institut francais d'Afrique Noire 47). IFAN, Dakar. Williamson, K. 1967. Songhai Word List (Gao Dialect). Research Notes, Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ibadan, 1/3: 1-34. |