Editing Meitei language (section)

=== Segments ===
Meitei distinguishes the following [[phonemes]]:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chelliah |first1=S. L. |title=Meitei Phonology |date=1997 |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |pages=17–21}}</ref>

'''Consonants'''
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!colspan=3|
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br>[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
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!colspan=3|[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
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|{{IPA link|ŋ}}
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!rowspan=4|[[Plosive]]
!rowspan=2|{{small|[[voice (phonetics)|voiceless]]}}
!{{small|unaspirated}}
|{{IPA link|p}}
|{{IPA link|t}}
|{{IPA link|tʃ}}
|{{IPA link|k}}
|{{IPA link|ʔ}}
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!{{small|[[aspirated consonant|aspirated]]}}
|{{IPA link|pʰ}}
|{{IPA link|tʰ}}
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|{{IPA link|kʰ}}
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!rowspan=2|{{small|[[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]}}
!{{small|unaspirated}}
|{{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|d}}
|{{IPA link|dʒ}}
|{{IPA link|ɡ}}
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!{{small|[[breathy voice|breathy]]}}
|{{IPA link|bʱ}}
|{{IPA link|dʱ}}
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|{{IPA link|ɡʱ}}
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!colspan=3|[[Fricative]]
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|{{IPA link|s}}
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|{{IPA link|h}}
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!colspan=3|[[Tap consonant|Tap]]
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|{{IPA link|ɾ}}
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!colspan=3|[[Lateral consonant|Lateral]]
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|{{IPA link|l}}
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!colspan=3|[[Approximant]]
|{{IPA link|w}}
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|{{IPA link|j}}
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'''Vowels'''
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!
![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
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![[Close vowel|High]]
|{{IPA link|i}}
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|{{IPA link|u}}
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![[Mid vowel|Mid]]
|{{IPA link|e}}
|{{IPA link|ɐ}}
|{{IPA link|o}}
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![[Open vowel|Low]]
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|{{IPA link|a}}
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Note: the central vowel /ɐ/ is transcribed as <nowiki><ə></nowiki> in recent linguistic work on Meitei. However, phonetically it is never [ə], but more usually [ɐ]. It is assimilated to a following approximant: /ɐw/ = [ow], /ɐj/ = [ej].