//******************************
// Phonemes for Kinyarwanda (rw), inherits "base2"
//******************************
 
phoneme a
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (a)
  length 180
  formants vowel/a_2
  reduceto a/  4
  beforepause a#
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme a/
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  length 180
  formants vowel/a#
  beforepause a#
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme e
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 170
  formants vowel/e
  beforepause e#
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme i
  vowel starttype (i) endtype (i)
  length 150
  formants vowel/i
  beforepause i#
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme o
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 170
  formants vowel/o
  beforepause o#
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme u
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 160
  formants vowel/u_bck
  beforepause u#
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme a#
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  length 100
  formants vowel/a#
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme

phoneme e#
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 100
  formants vowel/e
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme i#
  vowel starttype (i) endtype (i)
  length 100
  formants vowel/i
  linkout ;
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme o#
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 170
  formants vowel/o
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme u#
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 100
  formants vowel/u_bck
  beforevowel NULL
endphoneme


phoneme :   // Lengthen previous vowel by "length"
  virtual
  length 120
endphoneme

phoneme +   // high tone, use after a vowel
  stress
  tone 0 30 envelope/p_fall NULL
endphoneme

phoneme +2  // high tone, use after a vowel
  stress
  tone 0 30 envelope/i_risefall2 NULL
endphoneme