| Unrounded | Rounded | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Neutral | Back | ||||||
| High | i | i \ I | - | - | - | |||
| High | in | iN | - | - | - | |||
| Mid | - | e | e \ E | - | o | o | ||
| Mid | - | en | &N | - | on | oN | ||
| Low | - | - | a | a \ A | - | |||
| Low | - | - | an | AN | - | |||
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Guttural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | Voiceless | p | p | t | t | k | k | 0 | ? |
| Nasals | Voiced | m | m | n | n | n | N | - | |
| Fricatives | Voiceless | - | s | s | - | - | |||
| Approximants | - | l | l | - | 0 | . | |||
The letter n is «N» when final or before k.
A glottal stop «?» is pronounced before an otherwise initial vowel. If that vowel is either i or o and is followed by another vowel, the pronunciations «?:j» and «?:w_» are used instead of «?i» and «?o», respectively.
The only final consonant is n. The following medial clusters exist:
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | Voiceless | pp | p: | - | tt | t: | - | kk | k: | ||
| Nasals | Voiced | mp | m.p | - | nt | n.t | - | nk | N.k | ||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | sp | s.p | sm | s.m | st | s.t | ss | s: | sk | s.k |
| Approximants | lp | l.p | - | lt | l.t | - | lk | l.k | |||
Except for single consonants immediately preceding vowels, all segments are moraic. (C)V syllables (1 mora) are light and (C)VC syllables (2 morae) are heavy. Stress is weight-sensitive. If at least one of the last 3 syllables is heavy, the last heavy syllable is stressed; otherwise, the penult is stressed. However, words of only 2 morae may be unstressed and words of only 1 mora can't be stressed.
A word has only one primary stress; however, a compound or modified noun, or an incorporating verb may retain its original stress as a secondary stress.
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