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go
‘fly’
gu
‘crawl’
g
‘wear’
si
‘this’
se
‘drag’
s
‘grow’
so
‘crack jokes’
su
‘draw’
s
‘cattle’

i / is high front unrounded vowel.

xigi
‘devil’
pin
‘sl ap’
ámi
‘cat’

/ e / is higher mid front unrounded vowel.

ere
‘stomach’
cenn
‘cut (with scissors)’
jije
‘true'

/ e / is realized as lower mid front unrounded vowel [ E ] when it occurs in the first syllable of a word after [ y].

yso
‘cane’
ysi
‘water'
yta
‘bread’

a / is low central unrounded vowel.

agu
 ‘language’

 

 

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