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Dameli

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 35.303901, 71.643766

ISO code: dml

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velaralveolarpostalveolarretroflexpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dʈ, ʈʰ, ɖk, kʰ, g
trillr
fricatives, zʃ, ʒʂçh
affricatets, tsʰtʃ, tʃʰʈʂ, ʈʂʰ
nasalmnɳ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeu
near-closeɪ
open-midɛɔ
near-openæ
opena

Tones

31, 55

Source: Bashir, Elena. 2007. Dardic. The Indo-Aryan languages, ed. by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, 818–894. Routledge language family series. London: Routledge; Morgenstierne, Georg. 1942. Notes on Dameli. Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap 12.115–198.

Comments: [x] and [ɣ] occur in loanwords. Vowels are lengthened under stress; phonological status of length is unclear.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)