The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in IPA) with the
corresponding orthographic (romanization) symbols.
The letters used are:
a ā b c č ç d e ē f g h i ī j k l m n ň
ŋ o ō p s š t þ u ū w x z ž;
q, r, v, and y aren't
used.
There are 5 phonetic vowel qualities occurring as 5 low tone vowels and 5 high tone vowels; the latter are marked with macrons and may be pronounced longer.
| front | back | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | i | i | - | - | u | u | ||||||
| high-mid | - | e | e | - | o | o | - | |||||
| low | - | a | a | - | ||||||||
There are 33 consonant phones and 30 consonant phonemes.
| labial | coronal | dorsal | guttural | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stop | voiceless | p | p | pʲ | pj | - | t | t | - | c | k(j) | k | k | kʷ | kw | - | ʔ | k | |||||
| voiced | b | b | bʲ | bj | - | d | d | - | ɟ | g(j) | g | g | gʷ | gw | - | - | |||||||
| nasal | voiced | m | m | - | n | n | - | ɲ | ň | ŋ | ŋ | - | - | ||||||||||
| affricate | voiceless | - | - | t͡s | c | t͡ʃ | č | - | - | ||||||||||||||
| voiced | - | - | d͡z | z | d͡ʒ | ž | - | - | |||||||||||||||
| fricative | voiced | - | - | z | ʒ | - | - | ||||||||||||||||
| voiceless | - | f | f | θ | þ | s | s | ʃ | š | ç | ç | x | x | - | h | h | |||||||
| vocoid | voiced | - | l | l | - | j | j | - | w | w | - | - | |||||||||||
The possible syllable types are (C)V(C).
Every consonant except [ʔ] may appear as an onset. However, only some consonants appear initially.
Apart from gemination, the possible coda consonants are /s/, |N|, /l/, and [ʔ] with the last occurring only finally.
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current date: 2013.Dec.10 Tue
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