Proto-Alri phonology

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Main article: Proto-Alri

This page gives an extensive description of Proto-Alri phonological features.

Consonants

The consonant system distinguishes 20 phonemes, traditionally arranged in the following scheme:

IPA
Transcription
plosive voiceless
[p]
[k]
[t]
p
k
t
aspirated
[pʰ]
[kʰ]
[tʰ]
pʰ
kʰ
tʰ
pharyngeal
[ʡ]
ʡ
affricate
[pɸ]
[kx]
[tɹ̝̊]
ṗ
k̇
ṫ
retroflex
[ʈ]
[ʂ]
[ɽ]
ʈ
ʂ
ɽ
nasal
[m]
[n]
m
n
liquid
[r]
[l]
r
l
fricative sibilant
[s]
s
approximant
[j]
[w]
j
w

The group of the plosive consonants distinguishes three sub-groups: voiceless, aspirated, and pharyngeal, even though the voiced sub-group includes only the phoneme [ʡ]. No plosive phoneme display a distinction in voicing.

The group of the nasal and of the liquid consonants is slighty poorer, but anyway quite developed. The presence of a developed group of a group of retroflex and affricate consonant is particularly noteworthy.

The group of the fricative consonant is remarkably scarce, with a single sibilant phoneme, [s]. The phonemes [j] and [w] can have both semivocalic and full consonantal value.

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