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Lungtu Consonants:
There are 16 consonants in Lungtu.

* For typographical reasons, consonants are not defined with IPA, but a set of working romanization, as shown below.

Bilabial Labio-dental Alveolar Velar Glottal
Stop Aspirated p t k '
Unaspirated b d g
Affricate Aspirated ts
Unaspirated dz
Fricative f s h
Nasal m n ng
Liquid l
  • Note that all the stops, affricates and fricatives are voiceless, though alphabets such as "d" or "dz" are used.
  • All nasals and liquids are voiced.
    • A more detailed description.
    1. p
      A voiceless aspirated bilabial stop
      e.g. pi "nose"

    2. t
      A voiceless aspirated alveolar stop
      e.g. to "peach"

    3. k
      A voiceless aspirated velar stop
      e.g. ke "fast"

    4. '
      A glottal stop
      e.g. 'i "3rd person singular pronoun"

    5. b
      A voiceless unaspirated bilabial stop
      e.g. baba "dad"

    6. d
      A voiceless unaspirated alveolar stop
      e.g. di "ground"

    7. g
      A voiceless unaspirated velar stop
      e.g. gaang "to farm"

    8. ts
      A voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate
      e.g. tsz "to fry"

    9. dz
      A voiceless unaspirated alveolar affricate
      e.g. dza "early"

    10. f
      A voiceless bilabial/labio-dental fricative
      e.g. foo "rain"

    11. s
      A voiceless alveolar fricative
      e.g. si "four"

    12. h
      A voiceless glottal fricative
      e.g. ho "good"

    13. m
      A bilabial nasal
      e.g. mama "mom"

    14. n
      A alveolar nasal
      e.g. nien "year"

    15. ng
      A velar nasal
      e.g. nga "teeth"

    16. l
      A voiced alveolar lateral approximant
      e.g. lau "old"