Phonology The
phonology of Poula lacks
syllable codas and also disallows
consonant clusters in
onset position. There are 25 consonant
phonemes in Poula.
Consonants Vowels There are six vowel
phonemes in Poula. In Poula, the phoneme /ə/ is written with the
grapheme '
ü' (now, many use it as 'ii') in Bible and Hymns which was devised by Bible Society of India. In addition Poula lacks high back round vowel [u] as a monophthong, but [u] is present in nexus of diphthong; for example pou [pəu] `father'.
Tones Poula is a
tonal language, however tone is not currently marked in the
orthography. There are four
tonemes in Poula. Poula is an extremely innovative language–unlike Kuki-Chin languages–for having simple morphology. ==References==