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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/	American mama New Zealand bra Received hat
Ee	/e/	American may Australian bed Received confess
Ii	/i/	Most dialects free Australian bit
Ĩĩ	/ɨ/ ~ /ə/	Free variation; Southern American lip to arena Received did to bird
Oo	/o/	Received yawn
Uu	/u/	American boot Australian book