EURPhon: Korku

Korku

Phylum: Mon-Khmer

Genus: Munda

Lat/lon: 21.3498094, 77.49529

ISO code: kfq

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	alveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	b, bʰ, p, pʰ	d, dʰ, t, tʰ	ɖ, ɖʰ, ʈ, ʈʰ	ɟ, ɟʰ, c	g, gʰ, k, kʰ	ʔ
trill		r
tap			ɽ
fricative		s				h
nasal	m, mʰ	n		ɲ	ŋ
approximant				j
lateral approximant		l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
close-mid	e		o
open		a

Short nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩ		ũ
close-mid	ẽ		õ
open		ã

Licit initial clusters

Source: Zide, Norman H. 2008. Korku. The Munda Languages, ed. by Gregory D.S. Anderson, 256–298. Routledge language family series. London: Routledge.

Comments: Some residual tonal contrasts are attested: "...where a name ends in a vowel, the only morphological indicator of genitivity is the low tone..." (258).

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)