Vowels[]
Misima-Paneati has 10 vowel phonemes.[1]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i /i/ | u /u/ | |
| Mid-high | e /e/ | ə /ə/ | o /o/ |
| Mid-low | ɛ /ɛ/ | ʌ /ʌ/ | |
| Low | æ /æ/ | a /a/ | ɐ /ɒ/ |
Consonants[]
Misima-Paneati has 27 consonant phonemes.[1]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labialized | Plain | Labialized | Plain | |||||
| Stop | Voiceless | p /p/ | pw /pʷ/ | t /t/ | c /c/ | k /k/ | |||
| Voiced | b /b/ | bw /bʷ/ | d /d/ | j /ɟ/ | g /ɡ/ | gw /ɡʷ/ | |||
| Nasal | m /m/ | mw /mʷ/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | f /ɸ/ | s /s/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | ||||
| Voiced | v /β/ | z /z/ | ɣ /ɣ/ | ||||||
| Approximant | y /j ~ ʝ/ | r /ɰ/ | w /w/ | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l /l/ | q /ʟ/ | |||||||
Syllables[]
In Misima-Paneati, the following syllable types commonly occur: V, CV, CVC, and VC.
The open syllables V and CV are found in all positions of words, whereas the closed syllables CVC and VC are only found word finally and across morpheme boundaries, with the exception of the following 5 words:
- /ˈanma/ – ‘feelings’
- /ˈkimpos/ – ‘centre pole’
- /kinˈbʷai/ – ‘fingernail’
- /sinˈɡili/ – ‘centre rib of coconut leaf’
- /tabˈnaha/ – ‘sneeze’
The only monomorphemic consonant clusters that always occur across syllable boundaries are:
- /mn/
- /mp/
- /nb/
- /nɡ/
- /bn/
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Callister 1993, p. 1