Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | y /u/ | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Mid-low | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Low | æ | a | u /ɒ/ |
The official spelling denotes both /a/ and /ə/ by a. However, a is usually pronounced [ə] when it ends a word, and [ə] occurs also in prefixes ma-, pa- and da-.
Consonants[]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||
| Stop/Affricate | p | b | t | d | tʃ | dʒ | k | g | ʔ | |
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | |
| Approximant | w | ɹ | j | ɰ | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ʎ | ʟ | |||||||
| Trill | ʙ | r | ||||||||
Depending on dialect, the phoneme /t/ is realized as a voiceless alveolar or retroflex stop. This is in contrast with most other languages in western Indonesia (including Standard Indonesian), which have a dental /t/ patterning with an otherwise alveolar phoneme series.
Stress[]
Stress falls on the last syllable.