POA
MOA
Vowels
Consonants
Definitions
100

Uses both lips

Bilabial

100

Sound that is produced with airflow though the nasopharyngeal space.

Nasal

100

A vowel with raised tongue position

Bright vowel

100

Unvoiced, bilabial, stop plosive 

P [p]

100

Monosyllable 

A word with only one syllable

200

Uses only the vocal folds

Glottal

200

Manner of articulation that is represented by only one letter

trill -[r]

200

Vowel formed with a lowered tongue

Dark vowel

200

Unvoiced velar stop plosive

K [k]

200

Medial

Letter or sound in the middle of the word

300

Another name for soft palate

Velar

300

A consonant that is made with partial air flow.

Fricative

300

Vowel formed with flat, neutral tongue

Central vowels

300

Voiced dental nasal

N [n]

300

Postvocalic

A consonant following a vowel

400

Using both lips and teeth

Labiodental

400

A consonant that has a momentary closure of air flow

Stop Plosive 

400

Vowel formed with two vowels one immediately moving to the other.

semivowel, semiconsonant, glide

400

Voiced dental fricative

Th [ð]

400

Rising diphthong

Two vowel sounds in the same syllable with a lengthening of the 2nd vowel.

500

Another name of hard palate

Palatal 

500

A consonant that begins in a vowel position and immediately moves to the following vowel

Glide, semiconsonant, semivowel

500

Vowel sound that has no altering tongue movement.

Pure vowel

500

Voiced prepalatal affricative

J or soft G  [dʒ]

500

Apocopation

A vowel or group of letter that are omitted from the end of the word. Also called truncation

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