Phonology
The consonant phonemes of Fox are given in the table below. There are eight vowel phonemes: short /a, e, i, o/ and long /aː, eː, iː, oː/.
Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar or palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Stop | p | t | tʃ | k | ||
ʰp | ʰt | ʰtʃ | ʰk | |||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
Approximant | j | w |
Other than those involving a consonant plus /j/ or /w/, the only possible consonant cluster is ʃk.
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