Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Medial | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ng /ŋ/ | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | ƈ /cˤ/ | k /k/ | qu /kʷ/ | |||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | ʛ /ɟˤ/ | g /ɡ/ | ꝿu /ɡʷ/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f /f~v/ | th /θ~ð/ | s /s/ | ƨ /çˤ~ʝˤ/ | h /x~ɣ/ | xu /xʷ/ | (ħ /h/) | |
| voiced | (v /v/) | (dh /ð/) | z /z/ | (gh /x~ɣ/) | |||||
| Affricate | ts /ts/ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l /l/ | ||||||||
| Approximant | j /j/ | r /jˤ/ | w /w/ | ||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | ư /ɨ/ | u /u/ |
| Close-mid | ê /e/ | ơ /ɤ/ | ô /o/ |
| Open-mid | e /ɛ/ | o /ɔ/ | |
| Open | a /a/ | ||