Odia phonology
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Odia has twenty-eight consonant phonemes, two semivowel phonemes and six vowel phonemes.
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Vowel
Front | Back | |
---|---|---|
High | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Low | a | ɔ |
All vowels except /o/ also have nasal counterparts, but these are not always contrastive. Final vowels are standard and pronounced, e.g. Odia [pʰulo] contra Bengali [pʰul] "flower".[1]
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar /Dental |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ɳ | (ŋ) | |||
Stop/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | tʃ | k | |
voiceless aspirated | pʰ | t̪ʰ | ʈʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | ||
voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | dʒ | ɡ | ||
voiced aspirated | bʱ | d̪ʱ | ɖʱ | dʒʱ | ɡʱ | ||
Fricative | s | h | |||||
Flap | ɾ | ɺ̢[2] | |||||
Lateral approximant | l |
The velar nasal [ŋ] is given phonemic status in some[which?] analyses. Nasals assimilate for place in nasal–stop clusters. /ɖ ɖʱ/ have the flap allophones [ɽ ɽʱ] in intervocalic position and in final position (but not at morpheme boundaries). Stops are sometimes deaspirated between /s/ and a vowel or an open syllable /s/+vowel and a vowel. Some speakers distinguish between single and geminate consonants.[3]
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