Phonemic Inventory in Lungkhim

Tara Mani Rai

doi:10.3126/nl.v35i01.46566

Phonemic Inventory in Lungkhim

Authors

Tara Mani Rai Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nl.v35i01.46566

Keywords:

Lungkhim, phoneme, inventory, consonant, vowel

Abstract

This article attempts to explore the phonemes embedded to the Lungkhim. There are altogether 29 phonemes in Lungkhim. Of them, there are 6 vowels and 23 consonants. Consonants show four-way contrasts or oppositions: place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicing and aspiration.