Cärähə phonology

Main article: Cärähə

This page gives an extensive description of Cärähə phonological features.

Consonants

The consonant system distinguishes 19 phonemes, traditionally arranged in the following scheme:

		IPA			Transcription
plosive	voiceless	[p]	[k]	[t]	p	k	t
	voiced	[b]	[d]	[g]	b	d	g
	palatal	[c]		[ɟ]	c		ǰ
nasal		[m]		[n]	m		n
liquid			[r]			r
fricative	sibilant	[s]		[ɕ]	s		ɕ
	glottal		[h]			h
	velar		[x]			x
	palatal	[ç]		[ʝ]	ç		ɟ
	approximant	[j]		[w]	j		w

The group of the plosive consonants distinguishes three sub-groups: voiceless, voiced, and palatal.

The groups of the nasal and of the liquid consonants are considerably poorer, with the relevant presence of a single liquid phoneme, [r].

The group of the fricative consonants is not abundant, but it has a certain amount of in points of articulation, with no distinction between some voiced and voiceless phonemes. The phonemes [j] and [w] have a full consonantal value and they are never regarded as semivowels.