Made by closing the glottis in the throat. This is what takes place between the two syllables in “oh-oh”. Glottal stop.
This vowel is similar to the English vowel in "hat", "sat", and "mat". Low front close unrounded vocoid.
Similar to the ch in "church". Voiceless alveopalatal aspirated grooved affricate.
Pronounced like ch with the glottis opening and closing simultaneously. Voiceless alveopalatal glottalized grooved affricate.
Similar to the d in "dog" or "doll". Voiceless unaspirated alveolar stop.
Similar to the ttle in "bottle" or "battle". Voiceless unaspirated alveolar lateral affricate.
Similar to the dr in "drop" (but representing one sound rather than a combination of two consonants, as in English). Voiceless unaspirated alveolar retroflexed grooved affricate.
Similar to the ds in "buds" (but representing one sound rather than a combination of two consonants). Voiceless unaspirated alveolar affricate.
Similar to the g in “go” and “bag”. Voiceless unaspirated velar stop.
Made in the position of a g but allowing the air to escape from the larynx as in v and z. Voiced velar fricative.
Made in the position of the k but allowing the air to escape from the lungs as in f and s. Voiceless velar fricative.
Pronounced between the i in “sit” and the a in “above”. High front open unrounded vocoid to mid-central close unrounded vocoid.
Similar to the j in “job”. Voiceless aspirated alveopalatal affricate.
Pronounced like the k in “kill”. Voiceless velar stop.
Pronounced like the k but with the glottis opening and closing simultaneously. Voiceless glottalized velar stop.
Pronounced like the l in “lick”. Voiced lateral fricative.
Resembles the l in “cleave”. Voiceless lateral fricative.
Pronounced like the m in “man”. Voiced bilabial nasal.
Pronounced like the n in “no”. Voiced alveolar nasal.
Similar to the j in “job”. Voiceless aspirated alveopalatal affricate.
Pronounced like the k in “kill”. Voiceless velar stop.
Pronounced like the k but with the glottis opening and closing simultaneously. Voiceless glottalized velar stop.
Pronounced like the l in “lick”. Voiced lateral fricative.
Resembles the l in “cleave”. Voiceless lateral fricative.
Pronounced like the m in “man”. Voiced bilabial nasal.
Pronounced like the n in “no”. Voiced alveolar nasal.
Pronounced like an n but cut off by closing the glottis. Voiced alveolar glottalized nasal.
Pronounced in the same position as the n but without moving the vocal cords. When pronounced by itself there is no sound except that of air escaping through the nose. Voiceless alveolar nasal.
Similar to the o in “jot” or “pot”. Low back rounded vocoid.
Pronounced like the s in “saw”. Voiceless alveolar grooved fricative.
Pronounced like the sh in “sheep”. Voiceless alveopalatal grooved fricative.
Sounds like the s and r pronounced together similar to the shr in “shrew” (but representing one sound rather than a combination of two consonants as in English) Voiceless alveolar retroflexed fricative.
Pronounced like the t in “toy” and “to”. Voiceless aspirated alveolar stop.
Pronounced like the t but with the glottis opening and closing simultaneously. Voiceless alveolar glottalized stop.
Sounds like t and ł pronounced together. No comparable sound in English. Voiceless aspirated alveolar lateral affricate.
Pronounced like the tł with the glottis opening and closing simultaneously. No comparable sound in English. Voiceless alveolar glottalized lateral affricate.
Sounds like t and r pronounced at the same time. Similar to the tr in “tree”. Voiceless aspirated alveolar retroflexed grooved affricate.
Sounds like the t and r pronounced at the same time with the glottis opening and closing simultaneously. Voiceless alveolar retroflexed glottalized grooved affricate.
