Appendix:Munja'kin pronunciation

The Munja'kin language has 18 consonants, 4 vowels, and 1 glides.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	a	father
b	b	bog
ch	tʃ	chop
d	d	dog
g	g	good
h	h	ham
i	i	beet
j	dʒ	jog
k	k	skill
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no
ng	ŋ	sing
o	o	coat
p	p	span
r	ɾ	battle
s	s	see
t	t	stop
u	u	rude
v	v	voice
w	w	wet
z	z	zoo
‘	ʔ	uh-oh

Phonetics

Munja'kin allows for any vowel to occur next to any other vowel and has some variability in terms of post-nasal mutation and reduplication.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m [m]	n [n]		ng [ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p [p]	t [t]	ch [tʃ]	k [k]	' [ʔ]
	voiced	b [b]	d [d]	j [dʒ]	g [g]
Fricative	voiceless		s [s]			h [h]
	voiced	v [v]	z [z]
Approximant		w [w]	r [ɾ]
Lateral			l [l]

Vowels

Munja'kin has only 4 phonetically distinct vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i [i]		u [u]
Mid			o [o]
Open		a [a]