Valware - Telugu

Pronunciation table

Latin	a	v	e	i	y	l	m	n	ń	o	r	s	t	u	w	f	h	ʻ
IPA	/a/	/β/	/e/	/i/	/j/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ŋ/	/o/	/ɾ/	/s/	/t/	/u/	/w/	/φ/	/h/	/Ɂ/

• The letters of the alphabet are arranged in a modified Cyrillic order.

Consonants

	labial	dental	alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
nasal	/m/ మ m	/n/ న n			/ŋ/ ఙ ń
voiceless stop		/t/ త t				/Ɂ/ క1 ʻ
voiceless fricative	/φ/ ఫ2 f		/s/ స s			/h/ హ h
voiced fricative	/β/ భ3 v
voiced approximant	/w/ వ 4 w			/j/ య y
tap			/ɾ/ ర5 r
voiced lateral approximant			/l/ ల l

Notes

• 1. The voiceless palatal stop /k/ is reassigned the value /ʔ/.
• 2. The voiceless bilabial aspirated stop /pʰ/ is reassigned the value /φ/.
• 3. The voiced bilabial aspirated stop /bʰ/ is reassigned the value /β/.
• 4. The labiodental approximant /ʋ/ is reassigned the value /w/.
• 5. The alveolar trill /r/ is reassigned the value /ɾ/.
• 6. The virama mutes the vowel of a consonant, so that only the consonant is pronounced. It is used when a nasal is the coda, e.g., యన, 'yana', lake; యన్ ల, 'yanla', child.

Vowels

Independent form

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/i/ ఇ i		/u/ ఉ u
Close Mid	/e/ ఎ e		/o/ ఒ o
Open		/ä/ అ a

Diacritic form with <క>, <ʻ>

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/i/ కి i		/u/ కు u
Close Mid	/e/ కె e		/o/ కొ o
Open		/ä/ క a