| \l, I | c / / o / | a | | 1 | in phonetically low-high central unrounded short vowel occurs except thc initial syllables of word utterence. (77 ml) "hunk', (p0 !I) tamarind”, (m /\ r*nd*) 'Inculicinc", (Uri) “let it go’; ‘give up”. phonetically realized as high back rounded long vowel. (u : rs) “house’, (tu : ndI) “fishing line" has two allophones [E] and [e]. [E] is phonetically meanmid front unrounded short vowel occurring in all positions cxcept word finally (EY innbi) “ant’, (nEVA) “nail', [ e ] is phonetically low-mid front unrounded short vowel occurring only word finally. (kB/s) ‘branch’, (p/\ppe) “bark of a tree'. phonetically realized as high-mid front unrounded long vowel. [e: ) occurs in all positions except word-final. (e: re) ‘cream’, (pe : r*) *name”. phonetically realized as mean-mid back rounded short vowel [ Q ). (Q r. A mbs) ‘health’; ‘body’, (ms) re) ‘weave’. phonetically realized as high-mid back rounded long vowel I of 1 occurs in all positions except word final. (o : nã :) “garden-lizard”, (po : cɛ ) ‘smoke”. phonetically realized as low-high back unrounded short vowel [A]. (/\ppa:) “father’, (t/\le) ‘head’. 295
