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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Plosive || p || b || || || t || d || || || || g || q || || ʔ || | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Plosive || p || b || || || t || d || || || || g || q || || ʔ || | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Plosive Geminate || || | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Plosive Geminate || || || || || || || || || || g: || | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Ejective || || || || || tʼ || || || || || || qʼ || | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Ejective || || || || || tʼ || || || || || || qʼ || | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Implosive || || || || || || ɗ | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Implosive || || ɓ || || || || ɗ || | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Fricative || ɸ || || || v || s̺ || s̻ || || || || || || ʁ || | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Fricative || ɸ || || || v || s̺ || s̻ || || || || || || ʁ || | ||
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Despite the moderate consonant inventory, the language only contrasts 3 vowel qualities, also contrasting short and long quantities.<br> | Despite the moderate consonant inventory, the language only contrasts 3 vowel qualities, also contrasting short and long quantities.<br> | ||
Revision as of 10:34, 22 March 2011
Phonology
Phonemes
Consonants
Middle Nyángar contrasts 28 different consonant sounds:
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiodent. | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Nasal Geminate | m: | n: | ŋ: | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | g | q | ʔ | |||||||||
| Plosive Geminate | g: | |||||||||||||||
| Ejective | tʼ | qʼ | ||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | v | s̺ | s̻ | ʁ | |||||||||||
| Fricative Geminate | s̺: | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||||||||||
Vowels
Despite the moderate consonant inventory, the language only contrasts 3 vowel qualities, also contrasting short and long quantities.
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| Close | i(:) | u(:) | ||||||||
| Open | a(:) | |||||||||
Orthography
Middle Nyángar uses a modified version of the Latin alphabet in writing. It is a somewhat deep orthography, that is, there is no one-to-one correspondence between phoneme and grapheme. Here are the phonemes again with their corresponding graphemes.
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiodent. | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ng | |||||||||||||
| Nasal Geminate | m | n | ng | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p,ph | b | t | d | g | c,k | h | |||||||||
| Plosive Geminate | b | |||||||||||||||
| Ejective | t,th | c,k,kh | ||||||||||||||
| Implosive | d | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | r | |||||||||||
| Fricative Geminate | s | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Fricative | l,lh | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | y | ||||||||||||||
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| Close | i,ie | u | ||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| Close | e,ui | iu,ue | ||||||||
| Open | ai,oe | |||||||||
