Variety Tswana S.30 (Atlantic-Congo)

Form Concept Segments

Consonants

Pulmonic Consonants
Place → Labial Coronal Dorsal Laryngeal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labio­dental Linguo­labial Dental Alveolar Palato-
alveolar		 Retroflex Alveolo-
palatal		 Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
/ Epiglottal		 Glottal
Nasal m m̩ n n̩ ɲ ɲ̍ ŋ ŋ̍
Stop pʰ p b t tʰ d k kʰ qʰ
Sibilant affricate ts tsʰ tʃ tʃʰ dʒ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s sʰ ʃ
Non-sibilant fricative f χ h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill r r̩
Lateral affricate tɬʰ tɬ
Lateral fricative ɬ ɬʰ
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap
Implosive

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open iunrounded close front vowel urounded close back vowel ʊrounded near-close near-back vowel ʊ̀rounded near-close near-back with-low_tone vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel ɔrounded open-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel áunrounded open front with-high_tone vowel
Vowels

Other segments


Other segments
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant