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Old Lithuanian
Family: Baltic
Region: Baltic region
Time: 16th century C.E.
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
| Voiceless stop | p pʲ | t | k kʲ | |
| Voiced stop | b bʲ | d | g gʲ | |
| Voiceless affricate | ts tsʲ | tʃ tʃʲ | ||
| Voiced affricate | dz dzʲ | dʒ dʒʲ | ||
| Voiceless fricative | s sʲ | ʃ ʃʲ | ||
| Voiced fricative | v vʲ | z zʲ | ʒ ʒʲ | |
| Nasal | m mʲ | n nʲ | ||
| Lateral | l lʲ | |||
| Trill | r rʲ | |||
| Approximant | j |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | eː | oː | |
| Low | ɛ æː | a aː |
Notes
- The short vowels /i, u/ are phonetically described as lax [ɪ, ʊ].
- The long vowel /aː/ is phonetically described as a back vowel [ɑː].
Bibliography
Dini, Pietro Umberto. 1997. Le lingue baltiche. Firenze: La Nuova Italia.
Girdernis, Aleksas. 2001. Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos fonologija ir morfonologija, in Id., Kalbotyros darbai, III. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybų institutas, pp. 200-242.
Mathiassen, Terje. 1996. A Short Grammar of Lithuanian. Columbus: Slavica Publishers.
Author
Adriano Cerri