Eyak

WALS coordinates: 60° 30′ N, 145° W

spoken in United States

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Eyak
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately large Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio High Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/ and lateral obstruent Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Complex Phonology
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13A Tone No tones Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants No bilabials or nasals Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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55A Numeral Classifiers Obligatory Nominal Categories
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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