Yom phonology

Where it differs from the IPA symbol, the conventional orthography is given below the phoneme.

Vowels

In Yom orthography, long vowels are written as double vowels, e.g. ⟨ɛɛ⟩ for /ɛː/.

	Front	Back	Non-front, non-back
High	i, iː	u, uː	ʊ, ʊː
Mid	e, eː	o, oː	ə
Mid-low	ɛ, ɛː	ɔ, ɔː	ɞ, ɞː
Low	æ, æː	ɑ, ɑː	a, aː

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Labial- velar
Stop	p  b		t  d			k  ɡ		k͡p  ɡ͡b
Nasal	m		n		ɲ ⟨ny⟩	ŋ		ŋ͡m
Affricate				t͡ʃ  d͡ʒ ⟨c⟩  ⟨j⟩
Fricative		f  v	s  z			x  ɣ	ʁ ⟨q⟩
Lateral			l			ʟ ⟨r⟩
Approximant					j ⟨y⟩	ɰ ⟨h⟩		w

External links

• Yom language