Phonologies of five P.N.G. languages; Workpapers in Papua New Guinea languages, 19; Samo phonemes: Description, interpretation and resulting orthography

5 ORTHOGRAPHY

The eighteen segmental phonemes (twelve consonant phonemes and
six vowel phonemes) together with two supra- segmental phonemes
(nasalization and stress) combine to form the sound system of the
Samo language. Their description, distribution, and interpretation
have been the focus of discussion to this point. We now turn to a
description of the practical orthography which results from an
application of the linguistic principles previously discussed.

5.1 Orthographic symbolization
Allophone

p>]
tt]

[d]
W
[g]
[f]

w

[s]
[h]
[m]
[n]
[1]
[w] /w/ w

Phoneme

Orthographic Symbol

/b/

b

/t/

t

/d/

d

A/

k

/g/

g

/f/

f

/s/

s

/h/

h

/m/

m

/!/

[y] /y]

y

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SAMO PHONEMES

Allophone

Phoneme

Orthographic Symbol

[i]

/i/

i

[e]

hi

e

[a]

hi

a

[u]
[u]

/u/

u

[o]

/o/

00

hi

nasalization

/y/

Am

Shaw, R. Daniel and Karen A. Shaw. 1977. "Samo phonemes: Description,
interpretation and resulting orthography. " In Richard Loving (ed.), Phonologies
of five P.N.G. languages , 97-135. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages,
19. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.