Phonology
Below are all of the consonants in Kildin Sami. The symbols in parenthesis are minimal sounds.
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lat. | plain | lat. | |||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | |||||
| b | d | ɡ | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | ç | x | |||
| v | z | ʒ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ŋ | ||||
| m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̊ | ||||||
| Approximant | l | j | (ʎ) | |||||
| l̥ | j̊ | |||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| r̥ | ||||||||
Rimma Kuruch's dictionary presents the following vowels for Kildin Sami:
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| long | short | long | short | long | short | |
| Close | /iː/ | /i/ | /ɨː/ | /ɨ/ | /uː/ | /u/ |
| Mid | /eː/ | /e/ | /oː/ | /o/ | ||
| Open | /aː/ | /a~ɐ/ | ||||
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