Is Burunking

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/