Part 3 · phonology — Chapter 7 · sound inventory
IPA reference
The tables below summarize every Phi sound in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, for quick lookup while you work through this part. The authoritative standard lives in documents/phonology_rules.md; if this page and that document ever disagree, that document wins.
Vowels
| Vowel | IPA |
|---|---|
| a | /ä/ |
| e | /e̞/ |
| i | /i/ |
| o | /o̞/ |
| u | /u/ |
Consonants
| Consonant | IPA | Type |
|---|---|---|
| m | /m/ | nasal |
| n | /n̪/ | nasal (dental) |
| p | /p/ | stop |
| t | /t̪/ | stop (dental) |
| k | /k/ | stop |
| l | /l/ | liquid |
| r | /r/ or /ɾ/ | liquid |
| s | /s/ | fricative |
| h | /h/ | fricative |
| w | /w/ | glide |
Fricative digraphs
| Digraph | IPA |
|---|---|
| ph | /ɸ/ |
| th | /θ/ |
| sh | /ʃ/ |
| wh | /ʍ/ |
Syllable boundaries and stress
Vowel pairs always show a syllable break with a dot: au is /ä.u/, oi is /o̞.i/, never a single glided sound. Stress falls on the penultimate syllable of every word: mia is /ˈmi.ä/, haolu is /hä.ˈo̞.lu/, phelora is /ɸe̞.ˈlo̞.rä/. A single-syllable word takes its stress on that one syllable, as in mu /ˈmu/.