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Phonetics
edit| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Postalveolar/ Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ny | |||||
| Stop | prenasalized | mb | nd | ngy | ng | |||
| implosive/ voiced | bb | d | gy | g | ||||
| voiceless | p | t | ky | k | ||||
| aspirated | ||||||||
| Fricative | prenasalized | nz | ||||||
| voiced | v | b | z | gh | ||||
| voiceless | f | th | s | h ⟨h⟩ | ||||
| Approximant | l | Lh | y | w | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||
In addition to the phonemes noted above, Konjo also has a prenasalized, voiceless /Nt/; and a voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate /Ts/.[1]
Vowels
editKonzo is characterized for having advanced tongue root[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close |  |
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| Near-close | |||
| Close-mid | |
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| Mid | |
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| Open-mid | |
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| Near-open | |
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| Open | |
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- ^ a b c "Konjo language and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ^ The Bantu languages. Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson. London: Routledge. 2003. ISBN 0-7007-1134-1. OCLC 50323065.
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