Variety Sandawe (isolate)

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 n ŋ
Stop  p b  t  d c ɟ  k  g ʔ
Sibilant affricate tsʼ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s
Non-sibilant fricative x h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap ɾ
Trill
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative ɬʼ ɬ
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 long unrounded close front vowel long rounded close back vowel urounded close back vowel orounded close-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel long unrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

                 
Other segments
 e̞ unrounded mid front vowel
 ǃʔ from voiceless alveolar click to voiceless glottal stop cluster
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 e̞ː long unrounded mid front vowel
 ⁿǃ pre-nasalized voiceless alveolar click consonant
 o̞ː long rounded mid back vowel
 ǀ voiceless dental click consonant
 ǁ voiceless alveolar lateral click consonant
 ⁿǀ pre-nasalized voiceless dental click consonant
 ǃ voiceless alveolar click consonant
 o̞ rounded mid back vowel
 ǁʰ aspirated voiceless alveolar lateral click consonant
 ǀʷʰ labialized aspirated voiceless dental click consonant
 ⁿǀʷ pre-nasalized labialized voiceless dental click consonant
 ⁿǁ pre-nasalized voiceless alveolar lateral click consonant
 ǁʷ labialized voiceless alveolar lateral click consonant
 ǃʰ aspirated voiceless alveolar click consonant
 ǃʷʰ labialized aspirated voiceless alveolar click consonant