Spectrogram

The figure below shows a spectrogram of the final phrase paksa ngakun si Matahari lagi kuat dari kadia ‘must admit the Sun more strong than him’, illustrating many of the features of consonants discussed above.

Notice the use of a tapped /r/ in matahari ‘sun’ and also dari ‘than’, and the occurrence of a glottal stop at the end of the final word, kadia ‘him’.

In paksa ‘must’, there is virtually no aspiration on the initial /p/, with VOT measured at 12 msec. In contrast, there is a little aspiration on the /k/ in ngakun ‘admit’ and kadia ‘him’, with VOT measured at 30 msec and 29 msec respectively, and the /k/ in kuat ‘strong’ has VOT of 33 msec.