Phonology of the Dzubukua language:[1]
Consonants[]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Fricative | h | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | ||||
| voiced | d͡z | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels[]
Vowel sounds are presented as [i, ɨ, u, e, o, a] and [œ] which is written out as a double vowel oe. Nasal vowels are pronounced as [ɐ̃, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ] along with nasalized double vowels oê and aê, not pronounced as diphthongs, but as nasalized monophthongs [œ̃, æ̃].[1]
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | ||
| Close | i | ĩ | ɨ | u | ũ | ||
| Mid | unrounded | e | ẽ | ||||
| rounded | œ | œ̃ | o | õ | |||
| Open | æ | æ̃ | a | ɐ̃ | |||