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 p pʰ b         t tʰ d             k kʰ ɡ    
 
 
 
 
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Ejective stops
 pʼ           tʼ               kʼ      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Clicks
         |k |kʰ |kˀ |g |ŋ     !̠k !̠kʰ !̠kˀ !̠g !̠ŋ                
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral clicks
             ǁk ǁkʰ ǁkˀ ǁg ǁŋ                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Affricates
             ts tsʰ dz                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral affricates
             tɬ dɮ                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ejective affricates
             tsʼ tɬʼ                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
   m           n               ŋ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                            
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
Tap, Flap
               ɾ                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
     f       s               x               h  
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
     ɬ                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                           j   w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
       l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Sandawe
UPSID number: 4902
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Khoisan, Sandawe
The languages has 54 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds: [pʰ] [p] [b] [tʰ] [t] [d] [kʰ] [k] [ɡ] [ʔ] [pʼ] [tʼ] [kʼ] [!̠ŋ] [!̠kʰ] [!̠kˀ] [!̠k] [!̠g] [ɬ] [s] [f] [x] [tɬ] [dɮ] [tsʰ] [ts] [dz] [tɬʼ] [tsʼ] [ǁŋ] [ǁkʰ] [ǁkˀ] [ǁk] [ǁg] [|ŋ] [|kʰ] [|kˀ] [|k] [|g] [ɾ] [l] [w] [j] [m] [n] [ŋ] [i̥] [i] [u̥] [u] [e̞] [o̞] [ä] [h]
Comments:

Sandawe is spoken around Sanzawa and Mtoro in
north-central Tanzania. The language has two level tones
plus a falling tone combining these two tones. Voiceless
vowels occur only in final syllables after a limited set
of consonan ts and are almost always low-toned, however
not all occurrences are predictgable. Velar nasal occurs
syllable finally; -nasal homorganic to a medial stop or
affricate is analyzed as an allophone of the velar nasal.
Clusters of /w/ with most other consonants apart from
labials are frequent.
Sources:

Dempwolff, O. 1916. Die Sandawe: Linguistisches und
ethnographisches Material aus Deutsch-Ostafrika.
(Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen Kolonialinstituts vol.
34.) L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg.

Elderkin, E.D. 1982. Tanzanian and Ugandan isolates.
Nilotic Studies. Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Languages and History of the Nilotic Peoples,
Cologne, R. Vossen and M. Bechhaus-Gerst, editors. (Kolner
Beitrage zur Afrikanistik, vol. 10): 499-521.

Tucker, A.N., Bryan, M.A. and Woodburn, J. 1977. The East
African click languages: a phonetic comparison. From: Zur
Sprachgeschichte und Ethnohistorie in Afrika. (Neue
Beitrage afrikanistischer forschungen, ed. W. Mohlig, F.
Rottland, B. Heine) Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin.