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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Kawa uses the Latin script with 2 additional letters: ⟨Ŋŋ⟩, ⟨Ƿƿ⟩ | |||
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|+ Kawa Alphabet | |+ Kawa Alphabet | ||
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| /ʍa/ | | /ʍa/ | ||
| /sʷa/ | | /sʷa/ | ||
|} | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ Consonant phonemes | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! Labial | |||
! Coronal | |||
! Guttural | |||
|- | |||
! Nasal | |||
| m | |||
| n | |||
| ŋ | |||
|- | |||
! Stops | |||
| p b | |||
| t tʷ | |||
| k kʷ g | |||
|- | |||
! Fricatives | |||
| f v | |||
| s sʷ | |||
| h | |||
|- | |||
! Approximants | |||
| w | |||
| j | |||
| ʍ<sup>1</sup> | |||
|} | |||
Notes: | |||
# During allophonic realisation, /w/ is affected by /ʍ/, however, in the writing system, it is seen and analysed as the soft version of /h/ | |||
===Vowels=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 250px" | |||
|+ Vowel Phonemes | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! Front | |||
! Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| i | |||
| u | |||
|- | |||
! Mid | |||
| e | |||
| o | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| colspan="2" |a | |||
|} | |} | ||