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! || | ! ||Labial||Central Alveolar||Lateral Alveolar ||Palato-Alveolar ||Velar | ||
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| '''Voiceless | | '''Voiceless Stop'''|| /p/|| /t/||/tɬ/||/tʃ/||/k/ | ||
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| '''Voiced | | '''Voiced Fricative'''|| /v/|| /ɹ/||/l/||/ʒ/||/ɣ/ | ||
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| '''Nasal''' || /m/|| /n/||||||/ŋ | | '''Nasal''' || /m/|| /n/||||||/ŋ/ | ||
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NOTE: While /ɹ, l/ are not phonetically fricatives, they pattern phonologically with the rest of the voiced fricatives. | |||
====Vowels==== | ====Vowels==== | ||
Ahakqau has a total of three monophthongs and | Ahakqau has a total of three short monophthongs, three long monophthings and six diphthongs making a total of twelve phonological vowels. Long monophthongs are realised as diphthongs but patterb with the short monophthongs. According to WALS, which only considers the quality of monophthongs, this is a small vowel quality inventory. | ||
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! !! Short Front!! Long Front!!Short Central!!Long Central!! Short Back!!Long Back | |||
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| '''High Monophthong'''|| /i/||/eɪ/||||||/u/||/oʊ/ | |||
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| '''Low Monophthong''' || || || /ä/||/ɛə/|| || | |||
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! !! Front!! Central!! Back | |||
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| '''High Diphthong''' || /ɔɪ/|| /iə/, /uə/|| /ɛʊ/ | |||
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| '''Low Diphthong''' || /aɪ/|| || /ɑʊ/ | |||
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===Orthography=== | |||
Ahakqau is written in the Latin alphabet. It is a phonemic alphabet which also reflects sandhi. | |||
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! Latin Letter!! IPA Value | |||
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| ⟨a⟩ || /ä/ | |||
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| ⟨aa⟩ || /ɛə/ | |||
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| ⟨ai⟩ || /aɪ/ | |||
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|⟨au⟩||/ɑʊ/ | |||
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|⟨g⟩||/ɣ/ | |||
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|⟨i⟩||/i/ | |||
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|⟨ia⟩||/iə/ | |||
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|⟨ii⟩||/eɪ/ | |||
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|⟨iu⟩||/ɛʊ/ | |||
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|⟨j⟩||/ʒ/ | |||
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|⟨k⟩||/k/ | |||
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|⟨l⟩||/l/ | |||
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|⟨m⟩||/m/ | |||
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|⟨n⟩||/n/ | |||
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|⟨ŋ⟩||/ŋ/ | |||
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|⟨p⟩||/p/ | |||
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|⟨q⟩||/tɬ/ | |||
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|⟨r⟩||/ɹ/ | |||
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|⟨t⟩||/t/ | |||
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|⟨u⟩||/u/ | |||
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|⟨ua⟩||/uə/ | |||
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|⟨ui⟩||/ɔɪ/ | |||
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|⟨uu⟩||/oʊ/ | |||
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|⟨v⟩||/v/ | |||
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|⟨x⟩||/tʃ/ | |||
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