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==Videos== | |||
===Jarai Alphabet (Bảng chử cái tiếng Gia Rai) - YouTube=== | |||
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwayUeLwfE</youtube> | |||
Revision as of 16:48, 22 February 2023
Alphabet
The alphabet contains 40 letters:
| Letter | IPA | Km* |
|---|---|---|
| Aa | aː | អះ |
| Ăă | a | អា |
| Ââ | ɨ | អិ |
| Bb | b | ប |
| Ƀƀ | ʔb | អប |
| C̆c̆/Čč | tʃ | ឆ |
| Dd | d | ដ |
| Đđ | ʔd | ឆដ |
| Ee | ɛː | អេ |
| Ĕĕ | ɛ | អេ |
| Êê | eː | អះ |
| Ê̆ê̆/Ēē | e | អេ |
| Gg | ɡ | គ |
| Hh | h | ហ |
| Ii | iː | អីះ |
| Ĭĭ | i | អី |
| Jj | dʒ | ឌយ |
| DJ dj | ʔdʒ | អេឌយ |
| Kk | k | កា |
| Ll | l | ល |
| Mm | m | ម |
| Nn | n | ន |
| Ññ | ɲ | ញ |
| NG ng | ŋ | ង |
| Oo | ɔː | អុះ |
| Ŏŏ | ɔ | អុ |
| Ôô | oː | អ |
| Ô̆ô̆/Ōō | o | អូ |
| Ơơ | əː | អឺះ |
| Ơ̆ơ̆/Ờờ | ə | អឺ |
| Pp | p | ផ |
| Rr | r | រ |
| Ss | s | ស |
| Tt | t | ទ |
| Uu | uː | អូះ |
| Ŭŭ | u | អូ |
| Ưư | ɯː | អ៊ូ |
| Ư̆ư̆/Ửử | ɯ | អូ |
| Ww | w | វ |
| Yy | j | យ |
* Correlation with Khmer Alphabet using IPA
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 | |||