A phonological study of Trieng's vowels

Abstract

This is a phonetic study of vowels of Trieng ethnic language by hearing based on 2.000 Trieng words spoken in Dục Nhầy village in Đăk Dục commune in Ngọc Hồi district in Kontum province in Vietnam. It is the second paper after the first one published in Journal of Business and Technology, No 23/2022, ISSN 2615-9414, pp. 79-95, Hanoi. In this paper, an inventory of 19 Trieng vowels has been found. Minimal pairs of Trieng words as well as phonological constrasts were provided. Data was collected directly during September, 26th to October, 26th in 2022 with a list of over 2.000 lexical items. This data was spoken by some native Trieng speakers and was analysed afterward by hearing using phonetic symbols of International Phonetic Alphabet 2018 (abbreviated IPA 2018).