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* 5 consonants: b d t k | * 5 consonants: | ||
** rostral/labial stop: b | |||
** voiced apico-palatal/alveolar stop: d | |||
** voiceless apico-palatal/alveolar stop: t | |||
** voiceless lamino-palatal/dorsal stop: c~k | |||
** syringeal/glottal stop: 2 | |||
* a large inventory of vowels (about as many as Khmer): ''i ị e ẹ a ạ ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized, -j, -w counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/) | * a large inventory of vowels (about as many as Khmer): ''i ị e ẹ a ạ ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized, -j, -w counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/) | ||
** birds pronounce /ɔ o ʊ u/ as their unrounded counterparts | |||
* 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlone tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'') | * 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlone tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'') | ||
There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels. | There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels. | ||