Editing Kodava language (section)

== Phonology ==
=== Vowels ===
Dravidian vowel systems contain five vowel qualities i.e. those usually corresponding to ''a, e, i, o'' and ''u.,'' with a short and long variants for each. However, Kodava has two more: the mid and high (close) back unrounded vowels, with corresponding long variants.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Emeneau|first=M. B.|year=1970|title=Koḍagu Vowels|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=90|issue=1 |pages=145–158|doi=10.2307/598436|jstor=598436|issn=0003-0279}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+[[Vowels]]{{sfnp|Bhadriraju Krishnamurti|2003|p=64}}
!
![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|{{IPAlink|i}}
|{{IPAlink|ɨ}}
|{{IPAlink|u}}
|-
![[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
|{{IPAlink|e}}
|{{IPAlink|ə}}
|{{IPAlink|o}}
|-
![[Open vowel|Open]]
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|{{IPAlink|a}}
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|}

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+[[Consonants]]{{sfnp|Bhadriraju Krishnamurti|2003|p=64}}
! colspan="2" |
![[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Retroflex]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPAlink|m}}
|{{IPAlink|n̪}}
|
|{{IPAlink|ɳ}}
|{{IPAlink|ɲ}}
|{{IPAlink|ŋ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Plosive]]
!<small>voiceless</small>
|{{IPAlink|p}}
|{{IPAlink|t̪}}
|
|{{IPAlink|ʈ}}
|{{IPAlink|c}}
|{{IPAlink|k}}
|
|-
![[Voice (phonetics)|<small>voiced</small>]]
|{{IPAlink|b}}
|{{IPAlink|d̪}}
|
|{{IPAlink|ɖ}}
|{{IPAlink|ɟ}}
|{{IPAlink|g}}
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|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative]]
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|
|{{IPAlink|s}}
|{{IPAlink|ʂ}}
|{{IPAlink|ʃ}}
|
|{{IPAlink|h}}
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant]]
|{{IPAlink|ʋ}}
|
|{{IPAlink|l}}
|{{IPAlink|ɭ}}
|{{IPAlink|j}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Trill consonant|Trill]]
|
|
|{{IPAlink|r}}
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|
|
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|}
Kodava and Kannada share a lack of palatalization of word-initial ''*k-'', which is a feature found in the Tamil-Malayalam branch.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Emeneau|first=M. B. |year=1967|title=The South Dravidian Languages |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=87|issue=4|pages=365–413 |doi=10.2307/597585|jstor=597585|issn=0003-0279}}</ref>