Tamian language

Phonology

For more information, read the article about Tamian phonology: Tamian language/Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
Manner ↓	Place→	Bilabial		Labiodental		Dental		Alveolar		Postalveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
	Voice→	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.	Vl.	Vd.
Nasal			(m)						n						(ŋ)
Plosive		p	b					t	d					k	g
Fricative				f	(v)	θ	(ð)	s	z	ʃ	(ʒ)	(ç)		(x)			(ʁ)	h
Approximant													j		w
Flap or tap									ɾ
Trill									(r:)								ʀ
Lat. app.									l

Vowels

Monophthongs
	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i: (y:)				u:
Near-close		ɪ (ʏ)		ʊ
Close-mid	(e:) (ø:)				o:
Mid			ə
Open-mid	(ɛ) (œ)				ɔ
Open			a a:

Diphthongs
Starting with ...	Ending in ...
[ɪ] ~ [j]	[a], [a:], [ɔ], [o:], [ʊ] or [u:]
[ʊ] ~ [w]	[a], [a:], [ɪ], [i:] [ɔ] or [o:]
[a] or [ɔ]	[ʊ]

Stress

The stress of Tamian words is always on one of the last three syllables of a word.

Alphabet

Monophthongs
	Phoneme	Phones
A	/a/	[a] , [ɛ]
B	/b/	[b] , [v]
C	/ʃ/	[ʃ]
D	/d/	[d] , [ð]
E	/ə/	[ə]
F	/f/	[f]
G	/g/	[g] , [ʒ]
H	/h/	[h] , [x] , [ç]
I	/i/	[ɪ] , [j]
J	/j/	[j]
K	/k/	[k]
L	/l/	[l]
N	/n/	[n] , [m] , [ŋ]
O	/o/	[ɔ] , [œ]
P	/p/	[p]
R	/ɾ/	[ɾ]
S	/s/	[s]
T	/t/	[t]
Þ	/θ/	[θ]
U	/u/	[ʊ] , [ʏ] , [w]
W	/w/	[w]
X	/ʀ/	[ʀ] , [ʁ]
Z	/z/	[z]