Pnar language
Introduction '''Pnar''' (), also known as '''Jaiñtia''' is an Austroasiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
Phonology Pnar has 30 phonemes: 7 vowels and 23 consonants. Other sounds listed below are phonetic realizations. The sounds in brackets are phonetic realizations and the sounds in slashes are phonemes.=== Vowels === Front Central Back Close //  // Near-close   Close-mid //  //  Mid   Open-mid //  // Open //There is also one diphthong: .=== Consonants ===  Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal // // // // Plosive voiceless // // // // // // voiced // //  //  //   voiceless aspirated // //  // voiced aspirated       Fricative // // Trill // Approximant central // // Lateral //
Syllable structure Syllables in Pnar can consist of a single nucleic vowel. Maximally, they can include a complex onset of two consonants, a diphthong nucleus, and a coda consonant. A second type of syllable contains a syllabic nasal/trill/lateral immediately following the onset consonant. This syllabic consonant behaves as the rhyme. (Ring, 2012: 141–2)
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External links * http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)*  Pnar in RWAAI Digital Archive*  Pnar DoReCo corpus compiled by Hiram Ring. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.