User:MIGUELbM/Muna v2.8

Phonology

Phonemic inventory

Consonants
	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	[ŋ]
Stop	p	t	k	[ʔ]
Fricative	f β	s ð	ɣ	h [ɦ]
Flap or tap		ɾ
Lateral app.		l

Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə̥	o
Open		a

Syllable structure

(C₁)V(C₂)

• C₁: a consonant other than /ɾ l s n/
• C₂: one of /ɾ l s n/
• V: a vowel

Allophony

• [n] assimilate in place of articulation to following consonants
• [h] become voiced [ɦ] between voiced vowels
• [ə̥] are assimilated into aspiration after stops [p t k]
• [ə̥] become [ʔ] word-initially or between vowels

Orthography

Romanization
Phoneme	Grapheme
m	m
n	n
p	p
t	t
k	k
f	f
β	b
s	s
ð	d
ɣ	g
h	h
ɾ	r
l	l
a	a
e	e
i	i
o	o
u	u
ə̥	'