Nez Perce Phonetics

Nez Perce has 36 phonemes, following along the general pattern of this chart:

(Aoki 1970:10)

In addition there are two suprasegmentals in Nez Perce:

Length: · (a middle dot)

Stress: ´ (an acute accent mark)

For a complete description of phonetics please refer to the Phonetics Page.

This page was last updated on Friday, February 7, 1997 8:12:33 PM