Muna

Phonology

Consonants

		Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	Fortis	p	t		k
	Lenis	b	d		g
Nasal			n
Fricative		ɸ	s		x
Approximant				j	w
Lateral Approximant			l
Tap or Flap			ɾ

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a	ɒ

Phonotactics

Syllable structure

C1 (C2) (C3) V (C4) (C5)

Onset

• Any consonant
• Any plosive + /ɾ/
• Any fricative + /l/
• Any consonant except approximants + /j/
• Any plosive + /r/ + /j/
• Any fricative + /l/ + /j/

Nucleus

• Any vowel

Coda

• /n ɾ/ except before themselves
• /l/ except before itself or /ɾ/

Stress

Stress falls in the first syllable unless the word has a non initial closed syllable (a syllable with coda) in which case it falls on the second syllable

Orthography

Romanization

Transcription

The transcription scheme only changes a few IPA characters to their most easily recognizable Latin equivalent, <ä> may use pretty much any diacritic to make the typing of Muna easy and more accessible, in extreme cases the digraph <ao> may be used since there are no diphthongs in Muna which may make the reading ambiguous.

		Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	Fortis	p	t		k
	Lenis	b	d		g
Nasal			n
Fricative		f	s		h
Approximant				j	w
Lateral Approximant			l
Tap or Flap			r

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a	ä / ao