Phonemic inventory
Consonants
| | Labial | | Alveolar | | Palatoalv.
sibilant /
palatal | | Velar |
|---|
| Nasal | | | m | | | n | | | ɲ | | | |
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| Stop | | p | b | | t | d | | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | | k | |
|---|
| Fricative | | f | v | | s | | | ʃ | | | x | |
|---|
| Approximant | | | | | | l | | | | | | |
|---|
Vowels
| | Front | | Central | | Back |
|---|
| High | | i | iː | | | | | u | uː |
|---|
| Mid-high | | e | eː | | | | | o | oː |
|---|
| Mid-low | | ɛ | ɛː | | | | | ɔ | ɔː |
|---|
| Low | | | | | a | aː | | | |
|---|
Syllable structure
(C1)V(C2)
C1: a consonant
V: a vowel
C2: an alveolar consonant other than /d/; i.e. one of /n t s l/
Allophony
- Non-pharyngeal consonants [t t͡ʃ ʃ ...] persistently become front [tʲ t͡ɕ ɕ ...] before a palatal nasal.
- Coronal consonants [n dʲ s ...] persistently assimilate in laminality to a following coronal consonant. Before an alveolar consonant, laminal obstruents become alveolar.
- Labial obstruents or nasals [m b f ...] persistently assimilate in labiodentality to a following labial obstruent or nasal.
- Nasals [m ɱʲ n ...] become nasals and assimilate in place of articulation to a following obstruent or nasal.
- Non-pharyngeal non-front consonants [m b̪ ɸ ...] become front [mʲ bʲ̪ ɸʲ ...] after a front consonant.
- Palatal or velar obstruents or nasals [ɲ c ç ...] become non-palatal or velar labial [mʲ pʲ fʲ ...] before a coronal obstruent or nasal. Velar obstruents or nasals become non-velar.
- Palatoalveolar stops or nasals [d͡ʒ ṉʲ t͡ɕ ...] persistently become non-affricate non-coronal palatal [ɟ ɲ c ...] before a palatal obstruent or nasal.
- Before an alveolar approximant lateral, obstruent sibilants become non-sibilant coronal coronal obstruent laterals; non-sibilant coronal stops become non-nasal alveolar approximant laterals.
Some words
| /vokene/ | [vokene] |
| /detlɔ/ | [del̥lɔ] |
| /pixɛ/ | [pixɛ] |
| /delɛ/ | [delɛ] |
| /xɛkad͡ʒi/ | [xɛkad͡ʒi] |
| /t͡ʃikɛ/ | [t͡ʃikɛ] |
| /ut͡ʃɛ/ | [ut͡ʃɛ] |
| /leki/ | [leki] |
| /tɛt͡ʃonu/ | [tɛt͡ʃonu] |
| /laːe/ | [laːe] |
| /tɛxa/ | [tɛxa] |
| /d͡ʒoːkɔːsa/ | [d͡ʒoːkɔːsa] |
| /lexa/ | [lexa] |
| /t͡ʃad͡ʒeː/ | [t͡ʃad͡ʒeː] |
| /koːɲɔ/ | [koːɲɔ] |
| /saa/ | [saa] |
| /kɛe/ | [kɛe] |
| /baxe/ | [baxe] |
| /kaːlɔːt/ | [kaːlɔːt] |
| /aːpe/ | [aːpe] |
| /kikɛ/ | [kikɛ] |
| /t͡ʃea/ | [t͡ʃea] |
| /t͡ʃileː/ | [t͡ʃileː] |
| /texiːkeː/ | [texiːkeː] |
| /kili/ | [kili] |
| /kit͡ʃeː/ | [kit͡ʃeː] |
| /kavite/ | [kavite] |
| /tɛliːta/ | [tɛliːta] |
| /loli/ | [loli] |
| /t͡ʃɛxɛ/ | [t͡ʃɛxɛ] |
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