r u p i | "ruby" |   | m u l | "water" |
k i r i | "road" |   | p a l | "leg" |
s a r a m | "person" |   | s ax u l | "Seoul" |
i r u m i | "name" |   | i l k o p | "seven" |
r a t i o | "radio" |   | i p a l s a | "barber" |
ax | "schwa (the 2nd vowel of sofa)" |
Questions
s o n | "hand" |   | sh i h a p | "game" |
s ao m | "sack" |   | sh i l s u | "mistake" |
s o s ax l | "novel" |   | sh i p s a m | "thirteen" |
s eh k | "color" |   | sh i n h o | "signal" |
u s | "upper" |   | m a sh i | "delicious" |
ax | "schwa (the 2nd vowel of sofa)" |
sh | "the first consonant in ship" |
ao | "the vowel of English caught" |
eh | "the vowel of English let" |
Are [s] and [sh] allophones of one phoneme or does each belong to a separate phoneme?
This time there are NO minimal pairs. Determine instead whether the sounds are in complementary distribution. Then answer the question.
t o b o l a | "to bore a hole" |   | ch i n a | "to cut" |
t a n u | "five" |   | ch i b a | "banana" |
k e s o k a | "to be cut" |   | ng k o sh i | "lion" |
k a s u | "emaciation" |   | n s e l e l e | "termite" |
k u n e z u l u | "heaven" |   | a zh i m o l a | "alms" |
n z w e t u | "our" |   | l o l o n zh i | "to wash house" |
z e v o | "then" |   | z e ng g a | "to cut" |
zh i m a | "to stretch" |   |   |   |
sh | "the first consonant in ship" |
ch | "the first consonant in chip" |
zh | "the middle consonant of azure" |
ng | "engma" |
Southern Knogo has a number of consonants that come in palatalized and unpalatalized pairs. t/ch, s/sh,z/zh. For each pair are the members of the pair allophones of one phoneme or does each belong to a separate phoneme?