Phonology
Below are the basic phonemes of Menominee represented in IPA. Characters to the left are the standard way in which the sound is written; characters to the right are IPA (if it differs).
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar / palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m | n | |||
| Plosives and affricate |
p | t | c | k | q |
| Fricative | s | h | |||
| Approximant | y | w | |||
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | iː | u | uː | |
| Close-Mid | e | eː | o | oː | |
| Near-open | ɛ | ɛː | aː | ||
| Open | a | ||||
| Diphthongs | |
|---|---|
| ia | ua |
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