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| Selected languages: | Tamasheq |
| UPSID number: | 4357 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Afro-Asiatic, Berber |
| The languages has | 37 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [b] [t̪ˁ] [d̪ˁ] [t̪] [d̪] [ɟ] [k] [ɡ] [q] [z̪ˁ] [s̪] [z̪] [ʃ] [ʒ] [f] [χ] [ʁ] [r̪] [l̪] [w] [j] [m] [n̪] [ɲ] [iː] [i] [uː] [u] [e̞ː] [e̞] [ə] [o̞ː] [o̞] [æː] [æ] [ɐ] [h] |
| Comments: | All consonants may appear long (geminate). Prasse's description indicates that there are five long/short vowel pairs and two vowels that only occur short, but details are unclear. |
| Sources: | Prasse, K-G. 1972. Manuel de Grammaire Touaregue. Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen. |