The Aśan Phonology [ðiː ə'ɬæn fəˈnɒ.lə.dʒi]
Vowels :
Aczu Śavnecze has 5 vocal phonemes (including 1 contextual), and 4 nasal phonemes.
Consonants :
Aczu Śavnecze has 23 consonants (including 4 affricates and 2 semi-vowels).
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palato- Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Stop | p | t | k | q | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ β | θ | s z | ʃ | x | ɦ | ||
| Affricate | p͡ɸ | t͡s d͡z | t͡ʃ | |||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ɮ | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ |
Orthography-phonology matching :
| IPA | Aczu Śavnecze | Equivalence in english/spanish/french | |
|---|---|---|---|
| /a/ | a | Like : fat | |
| /e/ | e | Like : bread | |
| /i/ | ı | Like : bit | |
| /o/ | ∅ (in a vowelless syllable) | Like : open | |
| /u/ | u | Like : pull | |
| /ɑ̃/ | ań | Like : chant | |
| /ɛ̃/ | eń | Like : peinture | |
| / ĩ/ | ıń | Like : key (nasalized) | |
| /õ/ | uń | Like : long | |
| /ʃ/ | c | Like : show | |
| /t͡ʃ/ | cz | Like : check | |
| /t/ | d, t | Like : tall | |
| /d͡z/ | dz | Like : pizza | |
| /ɸ/ | f | /f/ with both lips | |
| /ɦ/ | h | Like : Heeey ! (enthousiastic) | |
| /j/ | ı, ȷ (at initial position, and after a vowel or C·Ć·Z·Ź·S·Ś, except at final position) |
Like : you | |
| /k/ | k | Like : coin | |
| /l/ | l | Like : live | |
| /ʎ/ | ć | Like : bailar | |
| /m/ | m (and n before p) | Like : mum | |
| /n/ | n (and m before t) | Like : noodle | |
| /p/ | p | Like : pain | |
| /p͡ɸ/ | ph | Like : pff | |
| /q/ | q | /k/ from within the throat | |
| /r/ | r | "rolled R", Like : perro | |
| /s/ | s | Like : sing | |
| /ɬ/ | ś | /l/ and /ʃ/ pronounced together | |
| /t͡s/ | sz | Like : hats | |
| /θ/ | th | Like : thin | |
| /x/ | ch, r (before ś or ź) | Like : jota (R from within the throat) | |
| /β/ | v, w (after a vowel, and before ‹e› at the beginning of the word, except in frozen roots like *savn-) |
/v/ with both lips | |
| /z/ | z | Like : zoo | |
| /ɮ/ | ź | /l/ and /ʒ/ pronounced together | |
| ∅ (mute) | ‹s› after a stop :·: finale ‹q› or ‹r› :·: ‹h› before a consonant :·: ‹l› around an ‹r› | ||