Zou phonology

The set of 22 Zou consonantal phonemes can be established on the basis of the following minimal pairs or overlapping words. Besides these 22 Phonemes, 1 consonant is a borrowed phoneme (i.e. /r/), which is found only in loan words, in very rare cases (e.g. /r/ in /rəŋ/ "color"). Along with these consonants, Zou has 7 vowels: i, e, a, ɔ, o, u, ə.

Consonant Phonemes

Plosives(stops)	Bilabial	labiodental	alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
Unaspirated	p b		t d	c j	k g	?
Aspirated	ph		th		kh
Fricatives		v		s		h
Affricate			tʃ
Nasals	m		n		ŋ
l approximant		v		l
Approximants	w		y

Vowels

	unrounded	rounded
Open back	i	u
Close-mid back	e	o  ɔ
Mid back	(ə)

External links

• Zou language