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| Selected languages: | Tiwi |
| UPSID number: | 8351 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Australian, ungrouped |
| The languages has | 26 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [ⁿp] [p] [ⁿt̪] [t̪] [ⁿt] [t] [ⁿʈ] [ʈ] [ⁿk] [k] [ɣ] [ɾ] [l] [ɭ] [w] [ɻ] [j] [m] [n̪] [n] [ɳ] [ŋ] [i] [u] [ɔ] [ä] |
| Comments: | Retroflex consonants (except the rhotic) do not occur initially. Lee (1984) suggests that labialization of consonants can be predicted from occurrence of the vowel /o/. Other analyses have proposed distinctive labialized bilabial and velar consonants. |
| Sources: | Osborne, C.R. 1974. The Tiwi Language (Australian Aboriginal Studies 55). Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. Lee, J.R. 1983. Tiwi Today: a study of language change in a contact situation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Australian National University, Canberra. Lee, J.R. 1984. Changes in the roundedness feature in Tiwi. Australian Linguistics Society. |