Kundarayo

Introduction

Kundarayo (Natively: 쿤다라요 [kʰundarajo]) is a Japonic language spoken around the Northers parts of Korea and China

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Dorsal
Plosive	ph	th	kh
	b	d	g
Fricative		s	h
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Approximant	w	ɾ	j

• When not intervocalicly, /b d g/ become [p t k]
• When at the end of a syllable, /b d s g r/ become [p̚ t̚ t̚ k̚ l]
• The phonemes /t^h d s n h/ display palatalization, becoming [tɕ^h ʥ~tɕ ɕ ɲ ç]
• ŋ* and h* only occur in Chinese loans in Standard Kundara
• ŋ* only occurs in the coda and h only on the onset
• The cluster /hw/ is normally said as [ɸ]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ʌ	o
Low		a

• Clusters in the form CjV and CwV only occur in Chisene loans, and in those, wʌ, ji, wu, jɨ and wɨ don't occur