Phonology
The following is the phonology of Yaqay, as defined in .Kainakainu, Barth and Paidi, Yacobus and Rinantanti, Yulini and Morin, Izak. 1998. Fonologi bahasa Yakhai. Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. 190pp. https://repositori.kemdikbud.go.id/2531/1/fonologi%20bahasa%20yakhai%20%20%20199.pdfConsonants
* and are both dental consonants, while and are alveolar consonants. * is a postalveolar consonant while is palatal. * seems to be an allophone of found before velar consonants, like in the word (it is unclear whether the sequence is pronounced , , or just , but it seems to most likely be ). * The letter 'k' is only found at the beginning of words or at the end of syllables. At the beginning of a word, it's pronounced like (or , see later notes), while at the end of syllables, it's pronounced , for example, in the word , meaning 'walking'. * , represented by , is pronounced like in some words, for example, , meaning 'spear'. * is pronounced like in some words, for example, , meaning 'smelling'. * The original source makes it unclear whether is the voiceless glottal fricatives or a voiced glottal stop , but it is most likely the voiceless glottal fricative .Consonant Distribution
* 'Y' means that the consonant on the left of the row occurs in the word position at the top of the column. For instance, this section of the table: * means that the consonant can be found at the beginning and center of a word, but not at the end of one.Vowels
* and are sometimes considered to be the same phoneme as and respectively, while others consider them as separate phonemes that are in free variation.Vowel Distribution
* A pattern can be seen here wherein front vowels can all only occur at the beginning of syllables, while the back vowels can only occur at the ends of syllables.Syllable Structure
The syllable structure is not explicitly stated, but it appears to be:References
*Kriens, Ron and Randy Lebold. 2010.External links