Language/Jarai/Pronunciation/Alphabet
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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 |