Proto-Western-Läptälm language

Proto-Western-Läptälm is a Läptälm language spoken in the Kraj tu Ungu Peninsula by the Läptälm people.

Consonants
Proto-Western-Läptälm has 19 consonant phonemes compared to Proto-Läptälm's 23 consonants. The creaky and voiceless nasals evolved by contact to voiceless and aspirated plosives, respectively. The voiceless glottal fricative /h/ is a marginal phoneme used to separate two adjacent vowels.


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! colspan=2 | ! Bilabial ! Alveolar ! Palatal ! Velar ! Glottal ! rowspan=3 | Nasal ! voiceless ! voiced ! creaky ! colspan=2 | Stop ! colspan=2 | Fricative ! colspan=2 | Approximant
 * + Consonant phonemes of Proto-Western-Läptälm
 * m̩ ⟨mh⟩ || n̥ ⟨nh⟩ || ɲ̊ ⟨ñh⟩ || ŋ̊ ⟨ŋh⟩ ||
 * m || n || ɲ ⟨ñ⟩ || ŋ ||
 * m̰ ⟨ṃ⟩ || n̰ ⟨ṇ⟩ || ɲ̰ ⟨ṇ̃⟩ || ŋ̰ ⟨ŋ̣⟩ ||
 * p || t || tʃ ⟨c⟩ || k ||
 * || s || || || (h)
 * || l || || ||
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Vowels

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! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | ! colspan=2 | Front ! colspan=2 | Back ! unrounded ! rounded ! unrounded ! rounded ! rowspan=3 | Close ! modal ! creaky ! breathy ! rowspan=3 | Mid ! modal ! creaky ! breathy ! rowspan=3 | Open ! modal ! creaky ! breathy
 * + Vowel phonemes of Proto-Western-Läptälm
 * i || y ⟨ü⟩ || ɯ ⟨ï⟩ || u
 * ḭ ⟨ị⟩ || y̰ ⟨ụ̈⟩ || ɯ̰ ⟨ị̈⟩ || ṵ ⟨ụ̈⟩
 * i̤ ⟨ih⟩ || y̤ ⟨üh⟩ || ɯ̤ ⟨ïh⟩ || ṳ ⟨uh⟩
 * e || ø ⟨ö⟩ || || o
 * ḛ ⟨ẹ⟩ || ø̰ ⟨ọ̈⟩ || || o̰ ⟨ọ⟩
 * e̤ ⟨eh⟩ || ø̤ ⟨öh⟩ || || o̤ ⟨oh⟩
 * a || || ||
 * a̰ ⟨ạ⟩ || || ||
 * a̤ ⟨ah⟩ || || ||
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Tones

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! Tone ! Diacritic ! Pitch contour ! IPA diacritic
 * low
 * high
 * falling
 * rising
 * a
 * ā
 * à
 * á
 * ˨ 22
 * ˦ 44
 * ˦˨ 42
 * ˨˦ 24
 * /à/
 * /á/
 * /â/
 * /ǎ/
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