Western Chong includes the following sounds.
Consonants[]
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | aspirated | plain | aspirated | plain | aspirated | plain | aspirated | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | pʰ | t | tʰ | c | cʰ | k | kʰ | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||||
Vowels (Dicanio, 2009)[]
| Front | Central | Back Unrounded | Back Rounded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ii | u, uu | ||
| Close-Mid | e, ee | ə, əə | ɤ, ɤɤ | o, oo |
| Open-mid | ɛ, ɛe | ɔ, ɔɔ | ||
| Open | a, aa | |||
| Diphthongs | iə, iu | ai, ao | ɤə | uə |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dicanio, C. T., The Phonetics of Register in Takhian Thong Chong; http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dicanio/Chong_phonation.pdf
- ↑ Suwilai Premsrirat, Chong Language Revitalization Project; http://www.mekongwatch.org/PDF/Suwilai_Part1.pdf