Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Medial | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ñ /ŋ/ | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | ț /cˤ/ | k /k/ | qu /kʷ/ | |||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | ḑ /ɟˤ/ | g /ɡ/ | ꝿu /ɡʷ/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f /f~v/ | th /θ~ð/ | s /s/ | ș /çˤ~ʝˤ/ | xu /xʷ/ | h /h/ | ||
| voiced | v /v/ | d̆ /ð/ | z /z/ | ğ /x~ɣ/ | |||||
| Affricate | ts /ts/ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l /l/ | ||||||||
| Approximant | y /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/ | ||