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                              /k/     vs     /?/
 

     àmak            ‘raid’                       àma?         ‘just like’
     acàk             ‘all’                         acà?         ‘bubble (as a fluid)’
 
                              /?/     vs     zero
 
     pu?si            ‘grasp’                      pusi          ‘pry’
     àma?            ‘just like’                   àma         ‘strike’
 
                             /c/     vs     /s/
 
     meci             ‘bite’                        mesi         ‘beg’
     àci               ‘eat’                         àsi           ‘shut (door)’
 
                              /s/     vs     /z/
 
     às              ‘build (a house)’        àz          ‘blood’
     mesk          ‘serve’                     mez      ‘first’
 
                              /m/     vs     /n/
 
     mí                 ‘fire’                        ní             ‘I’
     amén            ‘sit (on ground)’         anén         ‘stop, halt’
     atèm            ‘trip’                         atèn         ‘sow (grains, seeds) ’
 
                              /n/     vs     //
 
     àni               ‘lead’                        ào          ‘betel’
     lon               ‘chutney’                   ló           ‘stone’
 
                              /l/     vs     //
 
     lo               ‘stone’                      ó          ‘boat’
     alu               ‘alight’                      au          ‘harvest’
 
                              /w/     vs     /y/
 
     áwa              ‘swim’                       áya          ‘shine’
     áw                ‘softest bamboo’         áy           ‘accuse’
 
  Level tone vs Rising tone
 
     a        ‘an act of making necklace’               á          ‘boundary line’
     s        ‘buffalo’                                         s          ‘cloth’
 
  Level tone vs Falling tone
 
     az       ‘thatch’                                         àz         ‘blood’
     s         ‘buffalo’                                         s          ‘excrete’
 
  Rising tone vs Falling tone
 
     ása         ‘peel’                                            àsa         ‘chirp (as birds)’
     tápu        ‘page’                                           tàpu       ‘thin’
     n          ‘spear’                                          d         ‘yam’
 
  Level tone-Rising tone-Falling tone
 
     apu        ‘blow’              ápu         ‘borrow’      àpu         ‘bridge, ladder’
     pusi        ‘pry’               púsi         ‘study’        pùsi        ‘enquire’
     s         ‘buffalow’         s          ‘cloth’         s         ‘excrete’
 
  The phonetic description of the segmental phonemes and tones and their allophones, wherever available are given below :
 
  1.2 Vowels :
 
  1.2.1. /i/ is phonetically [I] which is a lower-high front unrounded vowel occuring in all positions.
 
í [í] ‘wine, beer’
     
ita [ida] ‘moon’
     
sìpá [šìbá] ‘who’
     
kí [kí] ‘house’
 
 

 

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