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p b         *t *tʰ *d             k      
 
 
 
 
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  m           *n           ɲ   ŋ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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            *s                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                          j   w                
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Selected languages: Bruu
UPSID number: 2316
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Austro-Asiatic, Katuic
The languages has 42 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Western dialect. W. Bruu is spoken in areas of
Savannehkhet province, Laos and Ubon Rachathani province,
Thailand. The 'register' distinction between plain and
breathy voice quality is localized in the vowels in this
interpretation. Aspirated or voiced stops do not occur
before breathy vowels, neither does /s/. The inital
("minor") syllable of disyllabic words does not have
plain/breathy contrast. Vowels are nasalized rather than
breathy in phonologically "breathy" syllables after /h/
and /?/.

Sources:

Thongkum, T.L. 1979. The distribution of the sounds of
Bruu. Mon-Khmer Studies VIII:221-93.