Language/Jarai/Pronunciation/Alphabet

Alphabet

The alphabet contains 40 letters.

Aa

Ăă

Ââ

Bb

Ƀƀ

Čč

Dd

Đđ

Ee

Ĕĕ

Êê

Ê̆ê

Gg

Hh

Ii

Ĭĭ

Jj

DJdj

Kk

Ll

Mm

Nn

Ññ

NGng

Oo

Ŏŏ

Ôô

Ô̆ô

Ơơ

Ơ̆ơ

Pp

Rr

Ss

Tt

Uu

Uu

Ŭŭ

Ưư

Ư̆ư

Ww

Yy

Phonology

The following overview is based on Jarai as it is spoken in Gia Lai province of Vietnam.

Consonants

Jarai has 25 consonant phonemes:

		Bilabial	Dental/Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	voiceless plain	p	t			k	ʔ
	voiceless aspirated	pʰ	tʰ			kʰ
	voiced plain	b	d		ˀdʲ	g
	voiced glottalized	ˀb	ˀd
Fricatives	voiceless		s				h
	voiceless
Affricates	voiceless			tʃ
	voiced			dʒ
Nasals		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Lateral			l
Approximants		w			j

Vowels

Jarai has nine vowel phonemes, i.e. sounds that distinguish word meaning.

	Front	Central	Back
			Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i		ɯ	u
Mid	e	ə
Open-mid	ɛ			o
Open		a