Enets phonology

Phoneme Inventory

The following phonemes are combined from all of the different dialects of the Enets languages; Enets (Künnap 1999), Forest Enets (Siegl 2013), Tundra Enets (Nikolaeva 2014).

Vowels

	front	middle	back
high	i	ɨ	u
middle	e, ɛ	ə	o
low	æ	a	ɑ, ɒ

Consonants

	bilabial	dental	palatal	velar	post-velar
stops	p, b	t, d	pʲ, bʲ, tʲ, dʲ	k, g	q, ʔ
affricates		t͡s, t͡ʃ	t͡sʲ, t͡ʃʲ
fricatives		s, ʃ, ð	sʲ, ʃʲ	x	h
nasals	m	n	mʲ, nʲ	ŋ
laterals		l	lʲ
trills		r	rʲ
glides	w		j

1. There is partial or complete vowel reduction in the middle and at the end of a word
2. Consonants preceding i and e become palatalized

External links

• Enets language