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*There are short 4 vowel phonemes. | *There are short 4 vowel phonemes. | ||
*All vowels may be phonemically lengthened. | *All vowels may be phonemically lengthened. | ||
*There are no diphthongs. | |||
*Long vowels are not permitted before geminate consonants. | |||
==Phonology 091014== | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
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! style="width: 95px; "| | |||
! style="width: 95px; "| Labial | |||
! style="width: 95px; "| Alveolar | |||
! style="width: 95px; "| Retroflex | |||
! style="width: 95px; "| Palatal | |||
! style="width: 95px; "| Velar | |||
|- | |||
! Nasal | |||
| '''m''' /m/ | |||
| '''n''' /n/ | |||
| '''rn''' /ɳ/ | |||
| '''ny''' /ɲ/ | |||
| '''ng''' /ŋ/ | |||
|- | |||
! Plosive | |||
| '''p''' /p/ | |||
| '''t''' /t/ | |||
| '''rt''' /ʈ/ | |||
| '''j''' /c/ | |||
| '''k''' /k/ | |||
|- | |||
! Lateral | |||
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| '''l''' /l/ | |||
| '''rl''' /ɭ/ | |||
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|- | |||
! Approximant | |||
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| '''y''' /j/ | |||
| '''w''' /w/ | |||
|- | |||
! Tap | |||
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| '''r''' /ɾ/ | |||
| '''rr''' /ɽ/ | |||
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|} | |||
*There are 16 consonant phonemes. | |||
*All consonants apart from /ɾ, ɽ/ may occur as geminates. | |||
*Geminate /ɳː, ɲː, ŋː, ʈː, ɭː/ are written <rrn, nny, nng, rrt, rrl>. | |||
*For all other geminates the grapheme is doubled. | |||
*Only plosives may occur word-initially as geminates. | |||
*All geminates are permitted word-medially. | |||
===Vowels=== | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 285px; text-align:center;" | |||
! style="width: 95px; "| | |||
! style="width: 95px; "|Front | |||
! style="width: 95px; "|Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| '''i''' /i/ | |||
| '''u''' /u/ | |||
|- | |||
! Close-mid | |||
| '''e''' /e/ | |||
| '''o''' /o/ | |||
|- | |||
! Open-mid | |||
| '''ẹ''' /ɛ/ | |||
| '''ọ''' /ɔ/ | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| colspan=2; "|'''a''' /a/ | |||
|} | |||
*There are 7 short vowel phonemes. | |||
*All vowels may be phonemically lengthened, this is indicated by a circumflex (^) over the appropriate vowel: î, û, ê, ô, ệ, ộ, â. | |||
*There are no diphthongs. | *There are no diphthongs. | ||
*Long vowels are not permitted before geminate consonants. | *Long vowels are not permitted before geminate consonants. |