EURPhon: Võro

Phylum: Uralic

Genus: Finnic

Lat/lon: 57.8460723, 26.9986977

ISO code: vro

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p		t̪			k	ʔ
trill				r
fricative		f	s̪				h
affricate			t̪s̪
nasal	m			n
approximant		ʋ			j
lateral approximant				l

Short palatalised series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	velar	glottal
stop	pʲ		tʲ	kʲ
trill			rʲ
fricative		fʲ	sʲ		hʲ
affricate			tsʲ
nasal	mʲ		nʲ
approximant		ʋʲ
lateral approximant			lʲ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	back
close	i, y	u, ɯ
close-mid	e̞, ø̞	o̞, ɤ̞
near-open	æ
open		ɑ

Long series

	front	back
close	iː, yː	uː
near-close	ɪː, ʏː	ʊː
near-open	æː
open		ɑː

Source: Jüvä, Sullõv. 2002. Võro-eesti synaraamat: päält 15,000 tähüssyna. Võro Instituut; Teras, Pire. 2003. Võru keskkõrgete vokaalide kvaliteedist. In: Lõunaeesti häälikud II. Tartu Ülikooli eesti keele õppetooli toimetised 27 (Pajusalu, Karl and Pire Teras, eds.). Tartu

Comments: Overlong (Q3) mid vowels are significantly higher than short mid vowels; this is why they overlong vowels are treated differently than in North Estonian and assigned phonemic status. Long (Q2) vowels are not distinct from short vowels in quality; depending on the analysis, their occurence can be explained prosodically or segmentally. Same applies to consonant length.