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The unaspirated voiceless alveolar stop and its aspirated congener : [] and [h]

ōŏ	‘child’	ōthó	‘paddy’
rģó	‘creek; brook’	kņhó	‘quickly’
ŏkō	‘few [adj and v]’	hņh	‘be neurotic’
pfŏŏ	‘human male’	vķhó	‘1.	plantain
			2.	banana

The unaspirated voiceless velar stop and its aspirated congener : [k] and [kh]

hąkį	‘body part between	hākh	‘plum’
	throad and chest’
ōkł	‘squirrel-like animal	ōkhł	‘grave’
	with three lines
	running along its
	body to kill which
	is a social honour’
ōkĭ	‘horn’	cōkhĭ	‘kind of tree, strikingly
			tall and upright with
			small branches’
ōkŏ	‘stalk’	kņkhŏ	‘embrace [n]’
mākē	‘be cold [of	mīkhĕ	‘smoke’
	weather or body]’

The voiceless bilabial affricate [pf] and its voiced congener [bv]

ōpf	‘mother’s sister’	bv	‘hatch [vi]’
pfŏté	‘mound’	bvóthą	‘kill by goring’

The voiceless bilabial affricate and the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop: [pf] and [ph]

kņph	‘to blink’	ōpf	‘mother’s sister’
phōdū	‘male [as of bovine	pfŏó	‘human male’
	quadrupeds viz.,
	cow etc]’

cģphņ	‘apple fruit’	pfņz[s] bǔ	‘durmast;
			sessile oak tree’

The voiceless bilabial affricate and the voiceless labiodental fricative : [pf] and [f]

ōpfǔ	‘optimum load	ōfǔ	‘lung’
	for a man’

ōpf	‘mother’	fģ	‘to cook by putting under
			ash or an cinders’

pfŏté	‘mound’	fōlā	‘navel’

ōpf	‘mother’s sister	ōf	‘1.	grove; thicket
			2.	plot of land’

The voiced bilabial affricate and the voiced labiodental fricative : [bv] and [v]

bvóthą	‘kill by goring’	ōvō	‘to knit’

cŏphó	‘to hatch’	vģprō	‘venus’

ōbvģ	‘cage’	ōv	‘banana’

The unaspirated voiceless palatal affricate [c] and its aspirated congener [ch]

ōcģ	‘stone’	chģ	‘to knit’

cģphó	‘cotton’	ch	‘to hang up on a hook’

cv	‘kind of bamboo,	ch	‘to insert ring on a
	slender and cane- finger’
	like used for
	making ropes,
	covering wicker-
	work, bucket etc.’

The unaspirated voiceless palatal affricate and its voiced congener : [c] and [j]

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