EURPhon: Galician

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Romance

Lat/lon: 43.0, -8.0

ISO code: glg

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	pharyngeal
stop	p, b			d̪, t̪			ɟ	k
trill					r
tap					ɾ
fricative	β̞		f	θ, ð̞	s̺	ʃ			ħ
affricate						tʃ
nasal	m				n		ɲ	ŋ
approximant		w					j
lateral approximant					l

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
close-mid	e		o
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
open		ä

Licit initial clusters

pɾ, bɾ, fɾ, β̞ɾ, d̪ɾ, t̪ɾ, ð̞ɾ, kɾ, ħɾ, pl, bl, fl, β̞l, kl, ħl

Licit finals

p, b, f, θ, d̪, t̪, s̺, l, ɾ, ʃ, k, ŋ, i̯, u̯, ħ

Licit syllabic templates

(C(L))V(C(s̺))

Source: Regueira, Xosé Luís (dir.): Dicionario de pronuncia da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. [Consultado: 29/06/2014]

Comments: In formal Standard Galician, /g ~ ɰ/ are employed instead of /ħ/; [h], [x], [ɦ] and [ʕ] are also found. /θ/ is absent dialectally (then /s̺/ and /θ/ merge into /s/). [ʎ] for /ɟ/ is not common anymore ([ʝ̞] is another possible surface realization). /β̞/ and /ð̞/ are normally considered allophones of their respective homorganic stops; however, the contrast is maintained in cases where syllabification might be ambiguous: cf. /s̺ub.li.mi.naɾ/ and /su.β̞li.me/ ([Regueira 2014: xii]). /ä/ might be advanced or retracted depending on the environment. The seven vowels reduce to [ɐ], [ɪ], [ʊ] when word-final and unstressed.