Phoneme inventory:

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n	ŋ
Stop	p   pʰ    b		t   tʰ    d	k   kʰ    g
Affricate			ts    dz
Liquid			l
Fricative		f	s		h

i	u
ɛ	o
a	ɔ

Practical orthography

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n	ng
Stop	p   ph    b		t   th   d	k   kh   g
Affricate			j    zh
Liquid			l
Fricative		f	s		h

i	u
e	o
a	eo

Tones:
Numbers in the ‘description’ column represent tones on a 1 – 5 scale, where 1 is low and 5 is high.

Name of tone:	Description of tone:
1	45
2	13
3	31
4	34
5	53
Checked (occur in closed syllables):
6	4
7	2