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Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | p | t | d | c | k | |||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃʲ | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s̠ | ʃ | ʂ | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||
| Lateral | glide | l | ʎ | |||||
| fricative | ɬ | |||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ ~ ə | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
Orthography
The following tables present the LANGUAGENAME letters in standardized alphabetical order, the sounds they correspond to in International Phonetic Alphabet, and how these can be approximated by an English speaker. As a post-contact alphabet, LANGUAGENAME is written as a heavily diacritical Latin script with a conservative selection of consonantal bases.
Consonants
| Letter | Value (IPA) |
English approximation |
|---|---|---|
| Cc | /k/ | key |
| Dd | /d/ | dive |
| Ff | /ɸ/ | fine |
| Ɥɥ | /c/ | Does not naturally occur in English. Closest approximation appears in back. |
| Jj | /j/ | you |
| Ll | /l/ | lay |
| L̃l̃ | /ʎ/ | million |
| Mm | /m/ | make |
| Nn | /n/ | never |
| Ññ | /ɲ/ | Does not naturally occur in English. Occurs in Spanish as Español. |
| Ṅṅ | /ŋ/ | sing |
| Pp | /p/ | poor |
| Tt | /t/ | tell |
| T̃t̃ | /t͡ʃʲ/ | Does not naturally occur in English. Closest approximation appears in peachy. |
| Ṫṫ | /t͡s/ | hertz |
| Xx | /ʃ/ | shell |
| X̃x̃ | /ɬ/ | Does not naturally occur in English. No sufficiently accurate approximations. |
| Ẋẋ | /ʂ/ | Does not naturally occur in English. No sufficiently accurate approximations. |
| X̣x̣ | /s̠/ | Does not naturally occur in English. No sufficiently accurate approximations. |
| Ãã | /w/ | water |
| ' | /ɾ/ | better in American English. |
Vowels
| Letter | Value (IPA) |
English approximation |
|---|---|---|
| Aa | /a/ | |
| Ee | /e/ | |
| Ii | /i/ | |
| Ĩĩ | /ɨ/ ~ /ə/ | |
| Oo | /o/ | |
| Uu | /u/ |