Phonology
Innu-aimun has the following phonemes (written using the standard orthography, with IPA equivalents in brackets):
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ||||
| Stop | p /p/ | t /t/ | tsh /tʃ/ | k /k/ | kᵘ/ku /kʷ/ | |
| Fricative | ss /s/ | sh /ʃ~s/ | (h /h/) | |||
| Lateral | (l /l/) | |||||
The voiceless stops are voiced to between vowels.
- Long vowels: î /i/, e /e~ɛ/, â /a/, û /o/
- Short vowels: i /ɪ~ə/, a /ʌ~ə/, u /o~ʊ~u/
- The circumflex accents over the long vowels are omitted in general writing.
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