Phonology of Monguor 蒙古儿，土 *

Page Index

• Introduction
• Monguor Vowel Chart
• Monguor Consonant Chart
• Follow the path of the Monguor data

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Introduction

The phonological features of Monguor include reduced vowel harmony, vowel devoicing in some initial syllables and short word-final vowels. The language has a three vowel system with phonemic vowel length, plus e and ə, as well as seven dipthongs.

Monguor Vowel Chart

	Front	Central	Back
High	i/i:		u/u:
High-mid	e/e:		o/o:
Low-mid		ə
Low		a/a:

Monguor's consonantal inventory includes a three-way silibant distinction (s, ts, ʣ, ʂ, ʐ, dʐ, tʂ, ɕ, j, ʨ, ʥ). The language also preserves the Middle Mongolian final nasals -n and -ŋ.

Monguor Consonant Chart

	Bi- labial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Retro -flex	Alveolo -palatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive	p  b		t  d			k  g		q
Nasal	m		n				ŋ
Trill			r
Fricative		f  v	s	ʂ  ʐ	ɕ		x
Affricate			ts  dz	tʂ  dʐ	ʨ  ʥ
Approx.						j
Lateral Approx.			l

Follow the path of the Monguor data

1. Get Started: Summary of the Monguor conversion
2. Convert Data: Conversion page (Classroom)
3. Create a Lexicon: FIELD tool (Workroom)
4. Present Data: Stylesheets page (Classroom)