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Selected languages: | Kurdish |
UPSID number: | 2015 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Indo-European, Iranian |
The languages has | 47 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [p] [b] [t̪] [d̪] [k] [ɡ] [q] [ʔ] [s̪] [z̪] [sˁ] [ʃ] [ʒ] [f] [v] [x] [ɣ] [ħ] [ʕ] [tʃ] [dʒ] [*ɾ] [*r] [*l] [lˁ] [w] [j] [m] [n̪] [ŋ] [ɪ] [iː] [ɨ] [ʊ] [uː] [e̞ː] [ə] [o̞ː] [äː] [əi] [e̞u] [o̞i] [e̞i] [əu] [äi] [äu] [ui] |
Comments: | |
Sources: | Abdulla, J. and McCarus, E.N. 1967. Kurdish Basic Course - |