Gnorbaran Phonology

The phonemes of Gnorbaran are represented here in X-SAMPA.

Consonants
Gnorbaran makes use of 22 consonant phonemes, which consist mainly of the labial, alveolar, and velar plosives articulated six different ways: plosive, plosive with sibilant release, plosive with lateral release, voiced plosive, nasalised plosive, and voiced plosive with lateral release.
Labials Alveolars Velars
Nasal m n N
Plosive p t k
Plosive +s p_s t_s k_s
Plosive +l p_l t_l k_l
Plosive +v b d g
Plosive +n b~ d~ g~
Plosive +v +l b_l d_l g_l
Liquid r
The phoneme /r/ only occurs in syllable codas.

Vowels
Gnorbaran makes use of six vowel phonemes
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e   2 o
Low a
Romanisation Phoneme Phonetic Realisation Syllable Environment
|m| /m/ [m] initial
|n| /n/ [n] initial
|gn| /N/ [N] initial
|p| /p/ [p] initial
|t| /t/ [t] initial
|k| /k/ [k] initial
|ps| /p_s/ [p_s] initial
|ts| /t_s/ [t_s] initial
|ks| /k_s/ [k_s] initial
|pl| /p_l/ [p_K] initial
|tl| /t_l/ [t_K] initial
|kl| /k_l/ [k_K] initial
|b| /b/ [b] initial
|d| /d/ [d] initial
|g| /g/ [g] initial
|mb| /b~/ [b~], [mb] initial
|nd| /d~/ [d~], [nd] initial
|ng| /g~/ [g~], [Ng] initial
|bl| /b_l/ [b_l] initial
|dl| /d_l/ [d_l] initial
|gl| /g_l/ [g_l] initial
|r| /r/ [r\],[r\'],['] final
|i| /i/ [i] mid, final
|e| /e/ [e] mid, final
|ø| /2/ [2] mid, final
|a| /a/ [a] mid, final
|o| /o/ [O] mid, final
|u| /u/ [u] mid, final

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