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Phonology

Consonants

	labial	dental	alveolar	palatal	velar	post-velar	glottal
plosives:		t̪	tz ʈ		kʷ kʲ	q	ʔ
ejectives:	p (pʼ)		tʼ	c (cʼ)
aspirates:	pʰ		tʰ	cʰ		qʰ
fricative:	f (ʰɸ)	(ð)	s	ʃ	(x)		ʜ ɦ
liquids:	w		l	j
trills:	ʙ̥		r̥				ʀ̥
nasals:	m	(n̪)	(n)	ɲ
implosives:	ɓ (ʘ)		ǃ

Vowels

i

ʊ

ʷɔˑ

ə

ɚ

æ

Orthography

Transcription of the draga language uses 25 characters of the Roman alphabet: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,ñ,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,w,x,y,z - and both the single-quote ( ' ) and double-quote ( " ) symbols to represent the sounds. In addition, the acute accent is used to represent pitch-accenting: á í ú.

p - /pʼ/, /p/ t - /tʰ/ t' - /tʼ/ ty - /ʈ/ c - /cʼ/, /c/ q -/q/ ph - /pʰ/ ch - /cʰ/ qh - /qʰ/ f - /f/; /ʰɸ/ before 'w': fw /ʰɸw/ s - /s/ m - /m/ ñ - /ɲ/; /n̪/ before 'd': ñd /n̪ð/ w - /w/; /ʘ/ following initial syllabic 'm': mw /mʘ/ l - /l/ y - /j/ d - /t̪/ initially, /d̪/ medially, /ð/ after 'ñ': ñd /n̪ð/ j - /tz/ x - /ʃ/ g - /ɦ/ b - /ɓ/ z - /ǃ/ p" - /ʙ̥/ t" - /r̥/ q" - /ʀ̥/