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| Selected languages: | Somali_ |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | |
| The languages has | 32 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [b] [t̪] [d̪] [ɖ] [k] [q] [ʔ] [s] [f] [ʃ] [χ] [ħ] [ʕ] [tʃ] [r] [l] [w] [j] [m] [n] [ɪ] [iː] [ʊ] [uː] [eː] [oː] [ə] [ɛ] [æː] [ä] [h] [ɡ] |
| Comments: | Vowels: Sjekk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_phonology Diphthongs: Sjekk |
| Sources: | http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_1998/ling202/atr.html |