EURPhon: Palula

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 35.434444, 71.745556

ISO code: phl

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	dental	alveolar	retroflex	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p, b, pʰ, bʰ	t̪, d̪, t̪ʰ, d̪ʰ		ʈ, ɖ, ʈʰ, ɖʰ			k, g, kʰ, gʰ
tap			ɾ	ɽ
fricative	β̞		s, z, zʰ	ʂ	ɕ, ʑ, ʑʰ		x, ɣ	h
affricate			ts	ʈʂʰ	tɕ, tɕʰ
nasal	m, mʰ	n̪, n̪ʰ		ɳ
approximant						j, jʰ
lateral approximant			l, lʰ

Vowels

Basic short series

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

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
close-mid	eː		oː
open		aː

Source: Liljegren, H., & Haider, N. (2009). Palula. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 39(03), 381-386.

Comments: “Aspiration is best considered a property of the lexical stem, rather than as a segment or a secondary articulation of any one segment. The feature occurs only once in a (phonological) word, in a majority of cases word-initially...” (p. 384) “The voiced aspirated sounds are normally phonetically realized with breathy voice during their release, and/or the vowel that immediately follows is pronounced with (at least partial) breathy voice... The voiced aspiration or ‘breathiness’ is also somewhat mobile within the syllable, and for some words even beyond the realm of a single syllable.” (p. 385) Contour pitch accents are distinguished on long vowels (déedi ‘paternal grandmother’ vs. deédi ‘burnt [F]’).