Đaxi phonology

Main article: Đaxi

This page gives an extensive description of Đaxi phonological features.

Consonants

The consonant system distinguishes 34 phonemes, traditionally arranged in the following scheme:

		IPA			Transcription
plosive	voiceless	[p]	[k]	[t]	p	k	t
	voiced	[b]	[g]	[d]	b	g	d
	palatal	[c]		[ɟ]	c		ɟ
	uvular		[q]			q
nasal		[n]	[ɴ]	[ɲ]	n	ṅ	ň
			[m]			m
liquid		[l]	[ɫ]	[ʎ]	l	ɫ	ʎ
		[r]	[ɽ]	[ʀ]	r	ṙ	ř
fricative	sibilant		[s]			s
	post-alveolar	[ʃ]		[ʒ]	š		ž
	palato-alveolar	[ɕ]		[ʑ]	ɕ		ʑ
	palatal	[ç]		[ʝ]	ç		ġ
	bilabial	[ɸ]		[β]	ɸ		β
	velar	[x]		[ɣ]	x		ɣ
	dental	[θ]		[ð]	θ		ð
	glottal		[h]			h
	labio-dental		[f]			f
affricate			[ʧ]			č
approximant			[j]			j

The group of the plosive consonants is essentially rich and distinguishes four sub-groups: voiceless, voiced, palatal and uvular, even though the uvular sub-group includes only the phoneme [q].

The groups of the nasal and of the liquid consonants are both developed and rich in the amount of phonemes and points of articulation poorer.

The group of the fricative consonants is overall very well developed and particularly rich in points of articulation, with an extended distinction between voiced and voiceless phonemes.

There is one affricate consonant, [ʧ]. The phoneme [j] can have both a semivocalic and a full consonantal value.

Vowels

There are 12 vocalic phonemes. No vowel makes any distinction neither in length nor in tone:

IPA

Transcription

[i]

[y]

[ɨ]

[u]

i

ü

y

u

[e]

[ɵ]

[o]

e

ö

o

[ɛ]

[ɵ]

ɛ

ɔ

[æ]

[ɑ]

ä

ɑ

[a]

a