Gujarati

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Voice Quality Contrasts in Gujarati

Gujarati contrasts normally voiced vowels with breathy-voiced vowels. Interestingly, it also has voiced-aspirated consonants. The breathy-voiced vowels apparently developed historically from loss of an inter-syllabic h (see Ladefoged, 2005, p.126).


Speaker 1

bar
("twelve")
emu WebApp 		ba̤r
("outside")
emu WebApp 		bʱar
("burden")
emu WebApp
pɔr
("last year")
emu WebApp 		pɔ̤r
("dawn")
emu WebApp
kan
("ear")
emu WebApp 		ka̤n
("Krishna")
emu WebApp
mɛl
("dirt")
emu WebApp 		mɛ̤l
("palace")
emu WebApp


Speaker 2

bar
("twelve")
emu WebApp 		ba̤r
("outside")
emu WebApp 		bʱar
("burden")
emu WebApp






mɛl
("dirt")
emu WebApp 		mɛ̤l
("palace")
emu WebApp

Note: An empty entry means that the corresponding word was not produced by the given speaker.

Audio Source:
Sounds of the Worlds Languages.

References:
Ladefoged, P. (2005): Vowels and consonants: an introduction to the sounds of languages. Malden: Blackwell.