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| Selected languages: | Sebei |
| UPSID number: | 4209 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Nilo-Saharan, E. Sudanic |
| The languages has | 26 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [p] [*t] [c] [k] [*s] [*ɾ] [*r] [*l] [w] [j] [m] [*n] [ɲ] [ŋ] [i] [ʉ̆] [ɨ̆] [u] [e] [o] [ə̹̆] [ə̆] [ɔ] [ɐ̹̆] [ɐ̆] [ä] |
| Comments: | The overshort vowels are described as reduced |
| Sources: | Montgomery, C. 1970. Problems in the development of an |