Phonetic Inventory

Table of contents
  1. Phonetic Inventory
  2. IPA with Audio
    1. Speaker Information
    2. Original Audio
  3. Consonant Inventory
  4. Vowel Inventory
  5. Pitch Inventory

IPA with Audio

  • Each IPA symbol in the phonetic inventory (consonants, vowels, tones) has a Google Drive .wav file linked

Speaker Information

  • The speaker is an adult female native speaker of SwaTao

Original Audio

  • The original audio files and phonetic analysis can be found in this Praat Analysis

Consonant Inventory

Notes on consonants:

  • Aspirated stops/fricatives are marked with a ʰ
  • Glottal Stop is only found in word final positions
  Bilabial Alveolar Velar Glottal
Plosive p
pʰ
b		 t
tʰ
 k
kʰ
g		 ʔ
Nasal m n ŋ  
Fricative   s   h
Affricate   ts
tsʰ
dz		    
Lateral Approximant   l    

Vowel Inventory

  Front Central Back Rounded Back Unrounded
High i     u
High-Mid e   ɤ o
Low-Mid        
Low       ɑ

Pitch Inventory

IPA Number[^3] Peng’im Tone # Tone Type (English) Tone Class (English) Tone Type (Teochew) Tone Class
(Teochew)
33 1 Low Level 阴 平
53 2 Low Rising 阴 上
213 3 Low Departing 阴 去
2 4 Low Entering 阴 入
55 5 High Level 阳 平
35 6 High Rising 阳 上
11 7 High Departing 阳 去
5 8 High Entering 阳 入