Rara #132
Legacy number: 132
| Number | 132 |
| Phenomenon | a phoneme inventory with almost 40 times as many consonants as vowels |
| Found in | Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian) |
| Domain | phonology — phoneme inventory |
| Type | nonesuch |
| Keywords | vowel, consonant |
| Source | Hagège, Claude (1982). La structure des langues. (Que sais-je?, 2006.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, p. 20. |
Discussion
Notes
HagËge attributes 2 vowels and 73 consonants to Ubykh, which has also gone on record as having no phonemic vowels at all (on an implausible analysis).
Comment
Hagège attributes 2 vowels and 73 consonants to Ubykh, which has also gone on record as having no phonemic vowels at all (on an implausible analysis).
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