Editing Buginese language (section)

== Phonology ==
Buginese has six vowels: {{IPA|/a/}}, {{IPA|/e/}}, {{IPA|/i/}}, {{IPA|/o/}}, {{IPA|/u/}}, and the central vowel {{IPA|/ə/}}.

The following table gives the consonant phonemes of Buginese together with their representation in [[Lontara script]].

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Consonants
|-
!colspan=2| 
!colspan=2| [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
!colspan=2| [[Dental consonant|Dental]]
!colspan=2| [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
!colspan=2| [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
!colspan=2| [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
!colspan=2| [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|m}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨆ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|n}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨊ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|ɲ}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨎ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|ŋ}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨂ}}
|colspan=2 style="background:#ccc"| 
|-
!colspan=2| [[prenasalized consonant|Prenasalized]] [[Consonant cluster|cluster]]
|class="API"| {{IPA|[mp]}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨇ}}
|class="API"| {{IPA|[nr]}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨋ}}
|class="API"| {{IPA|[ɲc]}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨏ}}
|class="API"| {{IPA|[ŋk]}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨃ}}
|colspan=2 style="background:#ccc"| 
|-
!rowspan=2| [[Plosive]]
! {{small|[[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|b}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨅ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|d}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨉ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|ɟ}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨍ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|ɡ}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨁ}}
|colspan=2 style="background:#ccc"| 
|-
! {{small|[[voicelessness|voiceless]]}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|p}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨄ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|t}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨈ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|c}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨌ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|k}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨀ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|ʔ}} || {{efn|{{IPA|/ʔ/}} only occurs finally, and is therefore not written in Lontara.}}
|-
!colspan=2| [[Fricative]] 
|colspan=2 style="background:#ccc"| 
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|s}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨔ}}
|colspan=2 style="background:#ccc"| 
|colspan=2 style="background:#ccc"| 
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|h}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨖ}}
|-
!colspan=2| [[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]] 
|colspan=2 style="background:#ccc"| 
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|r}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨑ}}
|colspan=6 style="background:#ccc"| 
|-
!colspan=2| [[Approximant]] 
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|w}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨓ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|l}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨒ}}
|class="API"| {{IPAblink|j}} || {{Script|Bugi|ᨐ}}
|colspan=4 style="background:#ccc"| 
|}
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When Buginese is written in Latin script, general Indonesian spelling conventions are applied: {{IPA|[ɲ]}} is represented by {{Grapheme|ny}}, {{IPA|[ŋ]}} by {{Grapheme|ng}}, {{IPA|[ɟ]}} by {{Grapheme|j}}, {{IPA|[j]}} by {{Grapheme|y}}. The glottal stop {{IPA|[ʔ]}} is usually represented by an apostrophe (e.g. {{lang|bug-latn|ana'}} {{IPA|[anaʔ]}} 'child'), but occasionally {{Grapheme|q}} is also used. {{IPA|/e/}} and {{IPA|/ə/}} are usually uniformly spelled as {{Grapheme|e}}, but {{IPA|/e/}} is often written as {{Grapheme|é}} to avoid ambiguity.