Editing Badaga language (section)

==Phonology==
Badaga has five vowel qualities, {{IPA|/i e a o u/}}, where each of them may be long or short, and until the 1930s they were contrastively half and fully [[R-colored vowel|retroflexed]], for a total of 30 vowel [[phoneme]]s.{{efn|Emenau (1931) reports no tokens of {{IPA|/i˞˞/}}, but suggests this is an accidental gap.}} Current speakers only distinguish retroflection of a few vowels.<ref>{{cite web |title=Badaga |publisher=UCLA Phonetics Lab |url=http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/appendix/languages/badaga/badaga.html |access-date=9 May 2013}}</ref>

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|+Example words<ref>{{cite web |title= Word List for Badaga |publisher=UCLA Phonetics Lab |url=http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/BFQ/bfq_word-list_1992_03.html |access-date=9 May 2013}}</ref>
! IPA
! Gloss
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|{{IPA|/noː/}}||disease
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|{{IPA|/po˞˞ː/}}||scar
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|{{IPA|/mo˞e˞/}} || sprout
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|{{IPA|/a˞e˞/}} || tiger's den
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|{{IPA|/ha˞ːsu/}} ||to spread out
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|{{IPA|/ka˞˞ːʃu/}} || to remove
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|{{IPA|/i˞ːu˞˞/}} ||seven
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|{{IPA|/hu˞˞ːj/}} ||tamarind
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|{{IPA|/be˞ː/}}|| bangle
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|{{IPA|/be˞˞ː/}}||banana
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|{{IPA|/huj/}}||to strike
|-
|{{IPA|/u˞˞j/}} ||chisel
|}

Note on transcription: rhoticity {{angbr IPA|◌˞}} indicates half-retroflexion; doubled {{angbr IPA|◌˞˞}} it indicates full retroflexion.

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!colspan="2"|
![[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| {{IPA link|ɳ}}
| {{IPA link|ɲ}}
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
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! rowspan="2" |[[Stop consonant|Stop]]
!{{Small|voiceless}}
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|ʈ}}
| {{IPA link|c}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
|
|-
!{{Small|[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]}}
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|ɖ}}
| {{IPA link|ɟ}}
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|
| {{IPA link|s}}
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|
|
| {{IPA link|h}}
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| {{IPA link|ʋ}}
| {{IPA link|l}}
| {{IPA link|ɻ}}
| {{IPA link|j}}
|
|
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! colspan="2" |[[Trill consonant|Trill]]
|
| {{IPA link|r}}
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