Variety Saponi (Lakes Plain)

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
Stop p b t d k g
Sibilant affricate
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s
Non-sibilant fricative ɸ β f ɣ h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap ɾ
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 urounded close back 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
Vowels

Other segments

      
Other segments
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
 oi from rounded close-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong
 ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
 ɛi from unrounded open-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong
 ɔi from rounded open-mid back to unrounded close front diphthong