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Korku

Phylum: Mon-Khmer

Genus: Munda

Lat/lon: 21.3498094, 77.49529

ISO code: kfq

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabialalveolarretroflexpalatalvelarglottal
stopb, bʰ, p, pʰd, dʰ, t, tʰɖ, ɖʰ, ʈ, ʈʰɟ, ɟʰ, cg, gʰ, k, kʰʔ
trillr
tapɽ
fricativesh
nasalm, mʰnɲŋ
approximantj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
opena

Short nasalised series

frontcentralback
close
close-mid
open

Licit initial clusters

Ø

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)