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Selected languages: Tsou
UPSID number: 2418
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Austro-Tai, Tsouic
The languages has 21 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Tsou is spoken on the western side of Mt. Ali in
Taiwan. Vowel sequences are common but can be analyzed as
heterosyllabic. Stress generally falls on the penultimate
syllable. The laryngealized segments are described as
"preglottalized"; the laryngealized lateral is distinct
from the sequence /?l/ but /?b/ is not reported by Tung
(1964).

Sources:

Tung, T-H. 1964. A Descriptive Study of the Tsou Language,
Formosa (Special Publication 48). Institute of History and
Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.