Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Monograph | Materials and Methods of Analysis for the Study of the Ainu Language
Chapter | 2 • Phonemic Inventory: The Sounds of the Language
2 • Phonemic Inventory: The Sounds of the Language
Abstract
Both Hokkaidō Ainu and Sakhalin Ainu (that will be abbreviated as
HA and SA respectively from now on) have five vowels, represented
in the latin script by a, e, i, o, u, and twelve consonants, represented
in the latin script by p, t, k, c, s, r, m, n, w, y, h, ‘. The apostrophe
is used to signal the glottal stop /ʔ/, a plosive glottal voiceless consonant
that consists in an obstruction of the airflow in the glottis
and produces a sort of pause like when in English we exclaim uh-oh.
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