MESCALERO LANGUAGE

'Mescalero' is a Southern Athabaskan language that is spoken in New Mexico.

Contents

Sounds

Consonants

Vowels

Bibliography

Sounds

Consonants

Mescalero has 31 consonants:

		Bilabial	Alveolar		Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
			central	lateral
'Stop'	unaspirated
	aspirated
	ejective
' Affricate '	unaspirated
	aspirated
	ejective
' Nasal '	simple
	prenasalized
' Fricative '	voiceless
	voiced

Vowels

Mescalero has 16 vowels:

		Front		Central		Back
		short	long	short	long	short	long
'High'	oral
	nasal
'Mid'	oral
	nasal
'Low'	oral
	nasal

Mescalero has phonemic ''oral'', ''nasal'', ''short'', and ''long'' vowels.

Bibliography