Phonology
The language does not distinguish between long and short vowels and does not have vowel harmony.
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Alveolo- palatal |
Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lat. | plain | lat. | ||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ||||||
| b | d | ɡ | |||||||
| Affricate | (t͡s) | t͡ʃ | t͡ɕ | ||||||
| (d͡z) | d͡ʒ | d͡ʑ | |||||||
| Fricative | (f) | s | ʃ | ɕ | (x) | ||||
| v | z | ʒ | ʑ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | ʎ | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
The consonants /f x t͡s/ are restricted to loanwords, and are traditionally replaced by /p k t͡ɕ/ respectively.
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Round | ||||
| Close | i | ɨ~ɯ | u | ||
| Mid | e | ə | ʌ | o | |
| Open | a | ||||
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