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| Selected languages: | Akan |
| UPSID number: | 4115 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Kwa |
| The languages has | 35 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [pʰ] [b] [tʰ] [d] [kʰ] [ɡ] [s] [f] [çʷ] [cçʷ] [ɟʝʷ] [cç] [ɟʝ] [r] [ɥ] [j] [m] [n] [ɲʷ] [ɲ] [ɪ̃] [ĩ] [ʊ̃] [ũ] [ä̃] [ɪ] [i] [ʊ] [u] [e] [o] [ɛ] [ɔ] [ä] [h] |
| Comments: | Labialized palatals appear as labialized velars |
| Sources: | Dolphyne, F.A. 1988. The Akan (Twi-Fante) Language: Its Ladefoged, P. 1964. A Phonetic Study of West African Schachter, P. and Fromkin, V.A. 1968. A Phonology of Akan: Stewart, J.M. 1967. Tongue root position in Akan vowel Welmers, W.E. 1946. A Descriptive Grammar of Fanti |