Phonology
There are three basic vowel sounds: a, i and u. In addition to these, e and o have been introduced as distinct vowels in some foreign loanwords. Each vowel may be either short or long. Here the vowels are shown in standard Rama orthography (see for example Craig et al. 1988):
| Short | Long | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Back | Front | Back | |
| High | i | u | ii | uu |
| (Mid) | (e) | (o) | (ee) | (oo) |
| Low | a | aa | ||
The following consonants are found (IPA transcriptions are shown where helpful):
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless Plosives | p | t | k | kw | ||
| Voiced Plosives | b | d | g | |||
| Fricatives | s | h | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | ng | ngw | ||
| Liquids | l, r | |||||
| Semivowels | y | w |
Rama words have non-predictable stress.
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