Consonants[]
A table containing the consonant phonemes is given below:
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Stop | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ||||||||
Affricate | tʃ | dʒ | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||
Approximant | l | ɹ | j | (ʍ) | w |
Vowels[]
Front | Central | Back | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
lax | tense | lax | tense | |||
Close | ɪ | i | ʊ | u | ||
Mid | ɛ | eɪ | ə | ʌ | oʊ | |
Open | æ | ɑ | (ɔ) | |||
R-colored | ɜ | |||||
Diphthongs | aɪ ɔɪ aʊ |