Appendix:Afata pronunciation

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The Afata language has 20 consonants, 6 vowels, and 2 glides.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	ɑ	father
b	b	bog
d	d	dog
dh	ð	this
e	e	bait
f	f	food
g	g	good
h	h	ham
i	i	machine
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
sh	ʃ	sheep
t	t	stop
th	θ	thin
u	u	rude
ü	y	-	Like German ü in für.
v	v	voice
w	w	wet
y	j	yawn
z	z	zoo
zh	ʒ	casual

Notes:

• Long Vowels: Long vowels are held for twice as long as ordinary vowels. Consider the "a" vowel in English "bat" and in English "bad". Notice how the "a" vowel in "bad" is considerably longer than the "a" vowel in "bat". The same can be true of any vowel in Afata. Such vowels are written doubled (e.g. a is a short vowel and aa is a long vowel).

Phonetics

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b		t d		k g
Fricative	f v	θ ⟨th⟩ ð ⟨dh⟩	s z	ʃ ⟨sh⟩ ʒ ⟨zh⟩		h
Nasal	m		n		ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Approximant	w		l	j ⟨y⟩
Tap			ɾ ⟨r⟩

Vowels

Afata has 6 phonetically distinct vowels with two lengths each:

	Front		Back
	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i iː ⟨ii⟩	y ⟨ü⟩ yː ⟨üü⟩	u uː ⟨uu⟩
Mid	e eː ⟨ee⟩		o oː ⟨oo⟩
Open			ɑ ⟨a⟩ ɑː ⟨aa⟩