| a / phonetically realized as low-back unrounded long vowel / р / | d’s | f | [ a : } has wide distribution. (a : kt.) “(to) cook”, (pa : fL) “grand mother’. has two allophones [p], and [.. pp J. [ pp j : bilabial voiceless long stop occurs intervocally, after short vowel. (/\ppa :) “father’, (sErt ppt) “sandals”, “footwear”. | p |: bilabial voiceless stop occurs elsewhere. (a : pI) *peg', (se : p#) “1 ed’. phonetically realized as bilabial voiced stop [b ]. (t /\ mbI) "younger-brother”, (/N ba: y A) “danger”. has two allophones [ t ), and [tt J. [tt | dental voiceless long stop occurs intervocally after short vowel. [ t ) dental voiceless short stop occurs elsewhere. (p /\ tt I) “row”, (p75tti) “brain’ phonetically realized as labio-dental voiced stop [d 1. (pa : d I) half ', (ps) de) “bury’. has three allophones [ t ], [ tự 1, and [ d ]. [ {{ } : retroflex voiceless long stop occurs intervocally after short vowel. [ d 1 : retroflex voiceless short stop occurs after homor ganic nasal. [ f | : retroflex voiceless short stop occurs elsewhere. (papti) “silk’, (pa : pt) ‘Song", (ka : ft) (to) show’, (nAnd t) ‘crab'. o ● realized as voiced flap [ r ) which occurs intervocally. (pa : r t) “sing”, (sE fI) ‘plant”. 296
