Behchokǫ̀ Rae-Edzo are part of the Dene Nation. 

The sounds of Dogrib written in the spelling system in current use, and in the International Phonetic Alphabet. To see the sound inventory, see the Orthography of Tłį Chǫ (Dogrib) Sounds. 

In the sections listed below are the consonant and vowel sounds with example words and descriptions of each of the sounds.

Consonants

The consonant sounds in a language are divided into two groups. The largest group, called obstruents, are comprised of the stops, fricatives and affricates. The Dene languages all have a very rich set of obstruent sounds.  

The second group is called sonorants. The sonorants are a smaller group consisting mainly of the nasals and the y and w sounds.

These are the sounds listed in the chart on this page, and on the sidebar.  Click on the sound in the sidebar that you want to hear.

Here is the inventory of consonant sounds in Dogrib Tłį Chǫ.

Vowels

SP2 Vowel space: four vowel qualities, no high back vowel was identified in our data.

Figure 1: SP2 Vowel Space

Vowel token plot: Mid back vowel o is quite high in the space and fills in where the high back vowel u vowel would be. There is good separation between the groups of vowels, although the mid from vowel e has a distribution into the back vowel space.

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Figure 2: Vowel token plot

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