bilabial | labio-dental | dental | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | |
stop | p | t̪ | k | |||||
trill | r | |||||||
fricative | f | s̪ | ʃ | h | ||||
nasal | m | n | ||||||
approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||
lateral approximant | l |
alveolar | |
stop | tʲ |
fricative | sʲ |
nasal | nʲ |
lateral approximant | lʲ |
front | back | |
close | i, y | u |
close-mid | e, ø | o, ɤ |
near-open | æ | |
open | ɑ |
(C)(C)V(V)(C)(C)(C)
Source: Hebedová, Petra. 2013. Stručná gramatika estonštiny. Masarykova univerzita, Brno.
Comments: Initial clusters are resticted to borrowings and onomatopoeia. /ʃ/ and /f/ are only found in borrowings. Palatalization is stronger in the initial part of the consonants. Half-long, long and overlong vowels and consonants might be treated either as biphonemic sequences or prosodically depending on the analysis.
Contributed by: André Nikulin (andre.n.guzman@gmail.com)