People in
Nahareka and Waibobo villages of Ossu, where I am from, normally do not
produce
/p/ sound, instead they produce /f/ fricative which is very common
among other
Makasae speakers populating other parts of Vikeke and Baukau.
Contrary to common belief that Makasae people do not have [h] sound,
Makasae
speakers in Ossu have /h/ sounds in words like 'aha' (mango), 'gehe'
(to
drink), 'naha' (burden), and so forth. In every day conversation,
however, many people just get rid of [h] sound by saying [a:] (mango),
[ge:]
(to drink), and so on. Although the two sounds seem to be
interchangeable (conditions
would be analyzed), the underlying existence of /h/ in those words is
still understood
among speakers of this language under many circumstances.
Table 1 and Table 2 are Makasae Osoroa phoneme charts based on our
preliminary
analysis.

