Appendix:Azrán pronunciation
The Azrán language has 23 consonants, 5 vowels, and 2 glides.
Standard Romanization
Letter | IPA | English example | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
a | a | father | |
b | b | bog | |
ch | tʃ | chunk | |
d | d | dog | A dental pronunciation. |
e | e | bait | |
f | f | food | |
g | g | good | |
gh | ɣ | Like a voiced version of the ch in German Buch. | |
i | i | beet | |
j | dʒ | jog | |
k | k | skill | |
kh | x | Like the ch in German Buch. | |
l | l | left | |
m | m | man | |
n | n | no | |
ng | ŋ | sing | |
ny | ɲ | minion | |
o | o | coat | |
p | p | span | |
r | r | Spanish perro | A nice trilled r. |
s | s | see | |
t | t | stop | A dental pronunciation. |
u | u | rude | |
v | v | voice | |
w | w | wet | |
y | j | yawn | |
z | z | zoo | |
j | ʒ | azure |
Phonetics
Azrán has phonemic tone and long vowels.
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m [m] | n [n] | ny [ɲ] | ng [ŋ] | ||
Plosive | voiceless | p [p] | t [t] | ch [tʃ] | k [k] | |
voiced | b [b] | d [d] | j [dʒ] | g [ɡ] | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f [f] | s [s] | kh [x] | ||
voiced | v [v] | z [z] | zh [ʒ] | gh [ɣ] | ||
Lateral | l [l] | |||||
Approximant | w [w] | r [r] | y [j] |
Vowels
Azrán has 5 phonetically distinct vowels in two lengths:
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i [i], ii [iː] | u [u], uu [uː] | |
Mid | e [e], ee [eː] | o [o], oo [oː] | |
Open | a [a], aa [aː] |
Tone
Azrán has two tone levels—high and low—and three tone melodies: high, low, and falling. The tones are indicated in the romanization in the following ways (using the vowel a as an example):
- High Tone: á (acute accent)
- Low Tone: a (no accent)
- Falling Tone: â (circumflex accent)