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Help on Koro phonetics

Koro Letters	Phonetic Symbol	English Example	Phonetic Description
Consonants
p	p	‘pat’	voiceless bilabial plosive
b	b	‘bat’	voiced bilabial plosive
t	t	‘toe’	voiceless alveolar plosive
d	d	‘dog’	voiced alveolar plosive
k	k	‘cat’	voiceless velar plosive
g	g	‘go’	voiced velar plosive
ɸ	ɸ	Not found in English.	bilabial voiceless fricative
ʋ	ʋ	Not found in English.	bilabial voiced fricative
s	s	‘so’	voiceless alveolar fricative
ʃ	ʃ	‘she’	voiceless postalveolar fricative
ʒ	ʒ	‘version’	voiced postalveolar fricative
ʧ	ʧ	‘chip’	voiceless palato-alveolar approximant
ʤ	ʤ	‘jam’	voiced palato-alveolar approximant
h	h	‘had’	voiceless glottal fricative
m	m	‘moon’	bilabial nasal
n	n	‘no’	alveolar nasal
ɲ	ɲ	‘onion’	palatal nasal
ŋ	ŋ	‘sing’	velar nasal
l	l	‘late’	alveolar lateral approximant
r	r	Not found in English.	alveolar trill
w	w	‘wind’	voiced labial-velar approximant
j	j	‘yak’	palatal glide
Vowels
a	a	‘father’	low back unrounded vowel
e	ɛ	‘fret’	mid front unrounded vowel
i	i	‘bee’	high front unrounded vowel
o	o	‘so’	mid back rounded vowel
u	u	‘soup’	high back rounded vowel
ɨ	ɨ	Not found in English.	central high unrounded vowel
ə	ə	‘about’	central mid unrounded vowel

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