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CC, onset
CC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CC, coda
CC, coda (ordered by sonority)
CCC, onset
CCC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CCC, coda
CCC, coda (ordered by sonority)
CCCC, onset
CCCC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CCCC, coda
CCCC, coda (ordered by sonority)
CCCCC, onset
CCCCC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CCCCC, coda
CCCCC, coda (ordered by sonority)
| Selected languages: | Tigrinya_ |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | |
| The languages has | 33 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [p] [b] [t] [d] [k] [ʔ] [pʼ] [tʼ] [kʼ] [s] [ʃ] [ʒ] [f] [z] [ħ] [sʼ] [tʃ] [r] [l] [j] [m] [n] [ɲ] [i] [ɨ] [u] [e] [o] [a] [ɐ] [h] [ɡ] [kʷʼ] |
| Comments: | |
| Sources: | Campbell (1991) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrinya_language Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world By Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie p. 1064 |