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The phonemes used in this work and their respective categorizations. For visual convenience, the coloring and ordering of the phonemes in this table are used in later figures.
| Category | Phoneme |
|---|---|
| Silence | sp |
| Stop | b d g p t k |
| Affricate | ch jh |
| Fricative | f v s z sh th dh hh |
| Nasal | m n ng |
| Approximant | w y l r |
| Monophthong | iy aa ae eh ah uw ao ih uh er |
| Diphthong | ey ay ow aw oy |
