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Selected languages: | Brao |
UPSID number: | 2311 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Austro-Asiatic, Bahnaric |
The languages has | 31 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [pʰ] [p] [tʰ] [t] [k] [ɡ] [ʔ] [ɓ] [ɗ] [s] [v] [ħ] [ⁿtʃ] [cç] [ɾ] [*l] [β̞] [j] [m] [n] [n̠] [ŋ] [i] [ɨ] [u] [e] [ɘ] [o] [ɛ] [a] [ä] |
Comments: | Brao is spoken in an area of North-Eastern Cambodia and adjoining areas of Laos. Keller (1976) provides details of the pronunciation of the symbols used in a 'practical orthography' but no other information on the phonology. Sequences of two like vowels represent long vowels; all may appear long. Sequences of unlike vowels may be limited but the limits are not specified. Approximants may follow long vowels. |
Sources: | Keller, C.E. 1976. A Grammatical Sketch of Brao: A Mon-Khmer Language. MA Thesis, University of North Dakota. Grand Forks, North Dakota. |