|
aba
|
‘father’
|
|
abya
|
‘ladder’
|
|
ata
|
‘elder sister’
|
|
ada
|
‘tomorrow’
|
|
aca
|
‘keep (above
something)’
|
|
aja
|
‘name of
a girl’
|
|
aka
|
‘name
of a boy’
|
|
axa
|
‘old’
|
|
aga
|
‘quick’
|
|
arya
|
‘gate’
|
|
aha
|
‘soul’
|
|
asa
|
‘let us
come’
|
|
ama
|
‘does not/do
not come’
|
|
ana
|
‘very much
essential’
|
a a
|
‘tie (after
covering)’
|
|
amya
|
‘penis’
|
|
ala
|
‘hand’
|
|
alya
|
‘lick’
|
|
ara
|
‘empty’
|
|
aya
|
‘good’
|
|
|
|
aca
|
‘keep
(above something)’
|
|
aja
|
‘name
of a girl’
|
|
aka
|
‘name
of a boy’
|
|
axa
|
‘old’
|
|
aga
|
‘quick’
|
|
agya
|
‘gate’
|
|
aha
|
‘soul’
|
|
asa
|
‘let
us come’
|
|
ama
|
‘does
not/do not come’
|
|
ana
|
‘very
much essential’
|
aa
|
‘tie
(after covering)’
|
|
amya
|
‘penis’
|
|
ala
|
‘hand’
|
|
alya
|
‘lick’
|
|
ara
|
‘empty’
|
|
aya
|
‘good’
|
|
|
| Since there is
no contrast between the palatalized consonants like pY , bY, gY
, nY , mY , lY and their cluster counterparts (i.e., phonemic
sequences, like py, by, gy, ny, my, ly) the palatalised consonants
are treated as sequences at the phonemic level. This is done to
simplify the orthography. |
| /
p / is voiceless bilabial stop |
|
buko
|
‘rat’
|
b n
|
‘curse’
|
|
|
/ b / is realized
as semi-voiced bilateral continuant [ b ] when
it occurs intervocalically, provided the following one is a back/central
vowel. |
|
aba
|
‘father’
|
|
abuje
|
‘various’
|
|
|
| / t / is voiceless
alveolar stop. |
|
|
| / d / is voiced
alveolar stop |
|
|
| / k / is voiceless
velar stop. |
|
kamo
|
‘dark’
|
|
muku
|
‘tobacco’
|
|
|
