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p           *t               k   q  
 
 
 
 
ʔ
 
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  m           *n               ŋ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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              *r            
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
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      v                   ʝ   ɣ                
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Approximant
  β̞                                            
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      *l           ʎ        
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Koryak
UPSID number: 2709
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Chukchi-Kamchatkan
The languages has 21 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Koryak is spoken by a few hundred people on the
Kamchatka peninsula in the USSR. A vowel harmony process
requires vowels in a word to belong to set 1 (i,u,e) or
set 2 (e,o,a). Many transcriptions are given with a schwa
vowel in Zhukova (1980) but their origin is not explained.
Palatal laterals occur before most vowels but are
described as "palatalized variants" of /l/. From the data
available they appear contrastive. All consonants except
/?/ can appear geminated.

Sources:

Zhukova, A.N. 1980. Jazyk palanskikh Korjakov. Nauka,
Leningrad.