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Vlax Romani (Mitrovica)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 42.8913909, 20.8659995

ISO code: rmy

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolaralveolo-palatalpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, pʰ, bt, tʰ, dk, kʰ, g
trillr
tapɾ
fricativef, vs, zxh
affricatetstʃʰ, dʒtɕʰ, dʑ
nasalmn
approximantj
lateral approximantlʎ

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiɨu
close-mideo
midə
openɑ

Source: Daniele Viktor Leggio. 2011. The dialect of the Mitrovica Roma. In: Romani Studies 5, Vol. 21, No. 1, 57–114.

Comments: /ə/ and /ɨ/ are claimed to alternate freely with non-central vowels, but it appears that only certain lexemes allow this free variation.

Contributed by: André Nikulin (andre.n.guzman@gmail.com)