|
[i:]
|
¹-C
|
[i:l]
|
|
In
monosyllabic only
|
|
|
C-C
|
[ i: i]
|
‘brave’
|
|
|
[o]
|
C-V
|
[loe?]
|
‘pennis’
|
|
|
|
¹-C
|
[ote]
|
‘soil’
|
|
|
|
C-C
|
[hora]
|
‘path’
|
|
|
|
C-¹
|
[laco]
|
‘lip’
|
|
|
|
-w/y
|
[jowa]
|
‘cheek’
|
In
free variation with[oa]
|
|
|
y-
|
[mayom]
|
‘blood’
|
|
|
|
e-
|
[eon]
|
‘to
awake’
|
|
[ ]
|
V-¹
|
[sada]
|
‘to
fortune’
|
Forming
|
|
|
|
[ta]
|
‘milk’
|
diphthong
|
|
[o.]
|
C-¹
|
[do.]
|
‘to
keep’
|
In
monosyllabics
|
|
|
|
[go.e?]
|
‘to
kill’
|
|
|
[ņ?]
|
V/C-?d
|
[senņ?]
|
‘to
go’
|
|
|
|
V/C-?b
|
[losņ?d]
|
‘mud’
|
|
|
[ö]
|
C-C
|
[sondöro]
|
‘pus’
|
As
vocal release
|
|
[o:]
|
¹-C
|
[o:?d]
|
‘act
ofubbing dirt’
|
|
|
|
C-C
|
[lo:r]
|
‘gully’
|
|
|
[õ]
|
-N
|
[orõ ]
|
‘to
blow’
|
|
|
|
N-¹
|
[mõ]
|
‘to
swell’
|
|
|
[õ:]
|
-ø
|
[mõ:øe]
|
‘five’
|
|
|
|
 - |
[ ćõ]
|
‘place’
|
Unaccounted
or independentnasalization
|
|
|
|
[kõ]
|
‘to
beg
|
|
|
[u]
|
¹ -V
|
[uli]
|
‘mango’
|
|
|
|
|
|
C-C
|
[dura]
|
‘song’
|
|
|
|
V/C-¹
|
[hanasu]
|
‘twilight’
|
|
|
|
-
|
[cu]
|
‘calf’
|
Forms
diphthong, withthe later
|
|
[u.]
|
C-
|
[ru.]
|
‘illness’
|
|
|
|
C-V?
|
[mu.i?]
|
‘ant’
|
|
|
|
C-¹
|
[ru.]
|
‘to
beat’
|
In
monosyllabics
|
|
|
¹C-C
|
[·u.b]
|
‘to
bedrowned’
|
|
[ ]
|
*-
|
[a]
|
‘to
bring’
|
As
a glide in a diphthong
|
|
[w]
|
i-a
|
[kiwa]
|
‘chin’
|
Freely
varies with [u]
|
|
|
e-a]
|
[ewa]
|
‘a
kind ofpaddy’
|
|
|
[w-glide]
|
o-a
|
[towa]
|
‘milk’
|
w-glide
forms thiphthong
|
|
|
u-a
|
[iuwa?d]
|
‘ear
wax’
|
|
|
|
a-o
|
[sirsirawa]
|
‘child’
|
|
[ ]
|
V-V
|
[naa]
|
‘new’
|
|
|
[Ł']
|
V/C-?
|
[kaiŁ’?]
|
‘finger’
|
|
|
[u_]
|
C-C
|
[dudu_mul]
|
‘a
pigeon’
|
A
vocal release
|
|
[u:]
|
|
[u:r]
|
‘skin’
|
|
|
|
C-C
|
[ru:a]
|
‘to
return’
|
|
[ .]
|
C-
|
[m]
|
‘nose’
|
|
[]
|
-N
|
|
‘word’
|
|
|
|
N-¹
|
[m]
|
‘nose’
|
|
|
|
¹-
|
[]
|
‘to
pinch’
|
Independent
nasalization
|
[:]
|
¹C-ø]
|
[k:øusu]
|
‘+o
kick’
|
|
[ ]
|
-
|
[ji]
|
‘second
of a pair’
|
|
|
|
| 1.2.
Establishing Phonemic Groupings: |
| A
list of eighty-three segments (phonetic glides being excluded) which
occur in Munari sound system in different environments have been given
a above. The environment for a segment consists of the segment immediately
following and preceding along with the open junctures, if the segment
is initial or final. All the environments are illustrated within the
frame of a word comprising of a single morpheme, however, quite often,
also across the syllable boundary. |
All
the segments are not contrast with others, they are in complementary
distribution, free variation or in over-lapping distribution as well.
Segments which have in common only a
|
