/ h/
Voiceless aspirated retroflex stop and it occurs in all the positions.
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/ h hoko/
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‘wood-pecker’
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/pahi/
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‘a kind of
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/cùh/ |
‘lie’
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sickle’ |
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/ /
Voiced unaspirared retroflex stop occurs in all the positions.
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/c/ voiceless unapirated palatal affricate occurs in all the positions.
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/cakũ/
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‘knife’
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/car/
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‘pickle’
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/mec/
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‘beat’(imp.)
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/cnto/
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‘pocket’
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/laci/
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‘cardamom’
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/kc/
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‘glass’
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/ch/ Voiceless aspirated palatal affricate occurs
in all the positions.
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/chj/
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‘winnowing |
/pacho/ |
‘cotton |
/rIch/ |
‘bear’ |
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fan’
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cloth’ |
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/chIpro/
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‘apron’
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/kacho/ |
‘under- |
/kch/ |
‘arm pit’ |
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wear’ |
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/j/ Voiced unaspirated palatal affricate and it occurs in all the
positions.
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/jiro/
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‘cuminseed’
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/pjamo/
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‘pajama’
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/raj/
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‘kingdom’
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/jrsi/
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‘under grament
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/jar/
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‘desolate/
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/cUj/
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‘beak’
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sticking to
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the body’
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/k/ Voiceless unaspirated velar stop occurs in all the positions.
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'flood' |
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'co-wife' |
/sek/ |
'heat' |
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'dumb' |
/s
kelo/ |
'step-son to a woman' |
/jet
k/ |
'child' |
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/kh/ A voiceless aspirated velar stop occurs in all the postions.
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/khng/
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‘cough’
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/cokhr/
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‘cattle,
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/sjakh/
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‘diabetes’
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domestic
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animals |
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/kh /
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‘oil cake’
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/khkha i/
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‘cheek’
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/sikh/
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‘sash (of window)’
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/g/ Voiced velar stop occurs in all the positions.
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/q/ A voiceless unaspirated uvular stop is a marginal phoneme found
mainly in the speech of educated people. It occurs in all the positions.
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/quatIl/
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‘murderer’ |
/hqiqt/ |
‘fact’ |
/hq/
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‘right’
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/qd/
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‘height’
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Nasals
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/m/ Voiced labial nasal occurs in all the positions.
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/mi/
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‘swamp’
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/mau/
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‘spring,
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/kum/
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‘daughter/
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fountain’
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son-in-law’s
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father’
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/mdan/
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‘ground’
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/dum/
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‘tail of the /ytim/
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‘orphan’
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bird’
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/n/ Voiced dental nasal has three allophomes.
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[ø]
palatal nasal occurs only before homorganic affricates.
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/bnc/
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[b c]
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‘bench’
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/gnjo/
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[gjo]
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‘bald’
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/pnjeb/
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[pjeb]
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‘anklet’
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/nj/
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[j]
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‘finger joint’
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/hnj/
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[hj]
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‘swan’
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