The orthography used here is a transliteration of the native writing system, with doubled letters substituting for diacritical marks. The 22 letters used are a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u x z; the letters j v w y aren't used.
The proposed phonetic values are given below. The 1st table shows the 18 consonant phones (17 phonemes) that can appear while the 2nd table shows the 5 vowel phonemes; the corresponding orthography is also given. Letters marked with an asterisk * appear in more than one place in the tables.
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Guttural | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | V'less | p | p | - | t | t | - | - | k | k | - | - | |||||
| Voiced | b | b | - | d | d | - | - | g | g | - | - | ||||||
| Nasals | Voiced | m | m | - | n* | n | - | - | n* | ŋ | - | - | |||||
| Affricates | V'less | - | - | c | t͡ʃ | - | - | ||||||||||
| Voiced | - | - | z | d͡ʒ | - | - | |||||||||||
| Fricatives | V'less | - | f | θ | s | s | x | ʃ | - | q | χ | h | h | ||||
| Trills | Voiced | - | - | r | r | - | - | - | |||||||||
| Approximants | - | - | l | l | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | i | - | - | - | u | u | |||||||||
| Mid | - | e | e | - | - | - | o | o | - | |||||||
| Low | - | a | a | - | - | |||||||||||
Syllables are (C(L))V(V|L|N)(C), where N is homorganic to the following consonant. Any single consonant may appear as an onset; onset clusters are limited to (most) obstruents plus a liquid. Post-resonant coda consonants are limited to voiceless obstruents.
Certain 2-vowel sequences combine into a single long vowel or diphthong:
| + i | + u | + a | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| i | ii | i: | uu | u: | oo | o: |
| o | ee | e: | oo | o: | aa | a: |
| e | ai | ai | au | au | aa | a: |
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