Variety Gaikundi (Ndu)

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 ɲ ŋ
Stop p b  t d c k  g
Sibilant affricate ʈʂ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s
Non-sibilant fricative v
Approximant l j
Flap or tap
Trill  r
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative
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 ɨunrounded close central vowel urounded close back vowel long rounded close back vowel ɪunrounded near-close near-front vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel ʌunrounded open-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel long unrounded open front vowel nasalized unrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

  
Other segments
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong