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1.2.

Contrasting pairs

1.2.1.

Vowels

/i/		/i/
p^hima	‘rug’	p^hi:ma	‘got out’
sil	‘shade’	i:l	‘oil’
p^his	‘clean’	p^hi:s	‘fees’
/e/		/e:/
ser	‘gold’	se:r	‘walk (evening)’
beto	‘calf’	be:ami:z	‘uncivilized’
/u/		/u:/
sul	‘wrinkle’	su:r	‘pig’
tuk	‘six’	tu:p²	‘tube’
mačuń	‘second wife’	ulu:s	‘procession’
/o/		/o:/
soba	‘province’	so:fa	‘sofa’
boal	‘bottle’	bo:u	‘Wednesday’
/a/		/a:/
yam	‘anus’	ya:m	‘evening’
hyańspa	‘games’	hya:ńspa	‘relax’
laza	‘taste’	la:na	‘curse’
/i/		/e/
ńispa	‘second’	ńespa	‘sin’
ces	‘danced’	cis	‘counted’
istifa	‘resign’	esaq	‘another’
/i/		/u/
istaw	‘stove’	usta:t	‘master’
rilba	‘roll’	rulba	‘rotten’
p^hali	‘shield’	p^halu	‘alphabet’
/u/		/o/
usu	‘coriander seed’	ospis	‘cream’
rduń	‘beat’	roń	‘face’
kru	‘corner’	kro	‘wheat’
/o/		/a/
oma	‘curds’	ama	‘mother’
skor	‘whirlpool’	skar	‘size’
rgo	‘body’	rga	‘love’
/u/		/a/
usu	‘coriander seed’	aura	‘moharam (10th)’
yuń	‘tumeric’	yań	‘again’
p^hru	‘young one’	p^hra	‘gem’
/e/		/o/
erba	‘people’	orba	‘soup’
c^he	‘life’	cho	‘lake’
baqp^he	‘flour’	baqp^ho	‘bridegroom’
/e/		/a/
ela:č	‘remedy’	alta	‘afterwards’
zerba	‘say’	˛arba	‘blind’
č^herpa	‘spleen’	č^harpa	‘rain’
/i/		/a/
ian	‘enough’	a˛ań	‘maternal uncle’
riń	‘length’	rań	‘pain’
k^hi	‘dog’	k^ha	‘mouth’

1.2.2.

/p/		/b/
dipi	‘breast’	bip	‘ferry boat’
brumpa	‘small pox’	brumbo	‘fat’
arpa	‘damp’	orba	‘soup’
/p/		/ph/
piso:l	‘pistol’	p^hista	‘out’
puksmo	‘knee’	p^hukma	‘straw’
ča:rpa	‘cot’	čop^hru	‘prince’
/p/		/f/
supa:ri	‘arecanut’	sufa:ri*	‘recommend’
ka:pi	‘notebook’	ka:fi	‘coffee’
t^hup	‘dark’	bya:quf	‘foolish’
/b/		/f/
so:ba	‘province’	so:fa	‘sofa’
do:bi	‘washerman’	dofo:s	‘club’
abis	‘armlet’	dafa*s	‘a kind of festival in which people gather in the place and shoot arrows’

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