Sáliba Phonology

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• Consonants
• Vowels
• Follow the path of the Sáliba data

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Consonants

Sáliba has 22 phonetic vowels, not including prenasalized variants that typically occur when a phonemically nasal vowel precedes them. There is a voicing distinction only in plosives and affricates, which boast up to six places of articulation.

Sáliba Consonant Chart

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Alveo-palatal	Velar	Labio-velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d	ʧ ʤ	k g	kw gw	ʔ
Fricative	ɸ	s		x		h
Nasals	m	n	ɲ
Laterals		l
Rhotics		ɾ r
Glides	wl

Vowels

Sáliba has ten phonemic vowels evenly distributed within the vowel chart. Each place of articulation has a nasal and non-nasal pair.

Sáliba Vowel Chart

	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ		u ũ
Mid	e		o õ
Low		a ã

Follow the path of the Sáliba data

1. Get Started: Summary of the Sáliba conversion
2. Digitize Audio: Digitizing Audio page (Classroom)
3. Digitize Images: Digitizing Images page (Classroom)
4. Digitize Text: XML page (Classroom)
5. Create Metadata: Metadata page (Classroom)
6. Web Presentation: Stylesheets page (Classroom)