The Sairupanese alphabet is written in IPA.
What is IPA?
IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA helps us to identify unique sounds that are used in speech - it provides us with a universal method of understanding speech sounds in different languages across the world.
You should also note that anything written in IPA uses square brackets, as demonstrated below. You'll see this more when you come across other blog posts!
There are 21 consonants and 9 vowels in Sairupanese. They are listed below:
Consonants
Here are the consonants from IPA that are used in Sairupanese:
[p], [b], [t], [d], [c], [ɟ], [m], [ŋ], [r], [ɾ], [ɹ], [R], [f], [θ], [s], [z], [j], [l], [ʎ], [ɦ], [h]
Vowels
Here are the vowels from IPA that are used in Sairupanese:
[i], [e], [ɛ], [a], [œ], [ə], [u], [ɑ], [o]
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