Bhumij has clusters of two vowels. There are
few clusters of two nasalized vowels. Vowel clusters are found in the word
initial, word medial and word final positions. Word initial clusters of two
vowels are very few compare to the word medial and word final clusters. Word
medial clusters of two vowels are more compare to word final clusters of two
vowels.
In the word medial clusters of two vowels, the
occurrence of a, i, u as second member is more compare to the occurrence of
other vowels as second member. However, no vowel seems to be prominent as a
first member in the medial cluster of two vowels. The vowel clusters are
given below:
t
/
u/
/
