Appendix:Munja'kin pronunciation: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 18:03, 11 February 2021
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 | |
| 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] | ||||
| 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] |