Ahtna
WALS coordinates: 62° N, 145° W
spoken in United States
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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| Routledge: | |
| Other: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Small | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately high | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In fricatives alone | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | Uvular stops and continuants | |
| Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives only | |
| Lateral Consonants | No /l/, but lateral obstruents | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Complex | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
| Tea | Words derived from Sinitic cha | |
