Is Burunking

Background

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n				ŋ
Plosive	p b	t d				k g
Fricative	ɸ	s	ʃ	ʐ	ç		h
Affricate			t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
Flap or tap		ɾ
Approximant	w				j
Lateral app.	l

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a

Vowels are considered to be short in all environments but may occur consecutively as in aanas 'sound' /ˈaːnas/.

Diphthongs

There are only four diphthongs proper: ai /ai/, ei /ei/, oi /oi/ and ou /ou/, which may be considered sequences of vowels in measuring syllables. In addition, any vowel is permitted to occur following the 'glides' /w/ or /j/.

Phonotactics

Is Burunking has a relatively restrictive syllabic structure, with a maximal form CGVVC, in which C represents a consonant, G a glide and V a vowel or diphthong. Of these, only the central vowel is essential but there are restrictions on the other elements also:

C¹	G	V¹	V²	C²
optional only b, g, h, x, l or n word-initially any consonant word-medially	optional only y or w/u	mandatory any vowel	optional only i, u or the preceding vowel repeated	optional only s, sh, ng or z word-finally only n or m before a consonant

Orthography

The following Latin alphabet is used to write Is Burunking today.

Consonants
Weak		Strong
Graph	IPA	Graph	IPA
b	/b/	f	/ɸ/
d	/d/	t	/t/
j	/d͡ʒ/	ch	/t͡ʃ/
g	/g/	k	/k/
		p	/p/
h	/h/	s	/s/
x	/ç/	sh	/ʃ/
n	/n/	ng	/ŋ/
		m	/m/
l	/l/
r	/ɾ/	z	/ʐ/
Vowels & Diphthongs
a	/a/	ai	/ai/
e	/ɛ/	ei	/ei/
i	/i/	oi	/oi/
o	/ɔ/	ou	/ou/
u	/u/

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