Grapheme Data for Asturian written with Latin script

The data shown below of graphemes and phonemes for Asturian is quite simplified, and is intended to represent his three dialectal areas (Western, Central and Eastern Asturian).

Source: Álvaro Arias, University of Oviedo

Grapheme	USV	Phoneme	Status	Example	Notes
<ai>	0061 0069	/ai/	expected	cantái ‘sing’
<au>	0061 0075	/au/	expected	prau ‘meadow’
<a>	0061	/a/	expected	pata ‘leg’
<b>	0062	/b/	expected	bobu ‘fool’	Sound is often close to /β/
<ch>	0063 0068	/tʃ/	expected	muncho ‘many’
<c>	0063	/θ/	expected	poces ‘holes’	'c' can be used for [θ] before i and e
<c>	0063	/k/	expected	casu ‘case’	'c' can be used for [k] before a, o and u
<d>	0064	/d̪/	expected	dibuxu ‘drawing’	Sound is often close to /ð/
<ei>	0065 0069	/ei/	expected	rei ‘king’
<eu>	0065 0075	/eu/	expected	feu ‘ugly’
<e>	0065	/e/	expected	peta ‘I feel like’
<f>	0066	/f/	expected	figu ‘fig’
<gu>	0067 0075	/g/	common	pagues ‘you pay’	'gu' is used for [g] before e and i; elsewhere it is [gw]
<gü>	0067 00FC	/gw/ = /g/ + /w/	common	güe ‘ox’
<g>	0067	/g/	expected	paga ‘he pays’	Sound is often close to /ɣ/
<h>	0068	/∅/	expected	home ‘man’
<ia>	0069 0061	/ja/	expected	murnia ‘sadness’
<ie>	0069 0065	/je/	expected	tierra ‘soil’
<io>	0069 006F	/jo/	expected	pioyu ‘louse’
<iu>	0069 0075	/ju/	expected	lladroniciu ‘robbery’
<i>	0069	/i/	expected	pita ‘hen’
<k>	006B	/k/	uncommon	keplerianu ‘keplerian’	loan words
<ll>	006C 006C	/ʎ/	expected	llábana ‘flagstone’
<l>	006C	/l/	expected	sele ‘calmly’
<m>	006D	/m/	expected	cama ‘bed’
<n>	006E	/n/	expected	cana ‘grey hair’
<oi>	006F 0069	/oi/	expected	doi ‘I give’
<ou>	006F 0075	/ou/	expected	mou ‘manner’
<o>	006F	/o/	expected	pota ‘pot’
<p>	0070	/p/	expected	papu ‘jowl’
<qu>	0071 0075	/k/	common	quesu ‘cheese’	'qu' occurs only before e and i
<rr>	0072 0072	/r/	expected	carru ‘cart’	Non-word-initial
<r>	0072	/ɾ/	expected	caru ‘expensive’
<r>	0072	/r/	expected	ramu ‘branch’	Word-initial
<s>	0073	/s/	expected	sosu ‘tasteless’
<ts>	0074 0073	/ts/	common	muntsu ‘many’	Only south-central Asturias
<t>	0074	/t̪/	expected	tetu ‘nipple’
<ua>	0075 0061	/wa/	expected	suañar ‘to dream’
<ue>	0075 0065	/we/	expected	tueru ‘trunk’
<ui>	0075 0069	/wi/	expected	cuidáu ‘care’
<uo>	0075 006F	/wo/	expected	naguo ‘I want’
<u>	0075	/u/	expected	puta ‘whore’
<v>	0076	/b/	common	viaxar ‘to travel’
<x>	0078	/ʃ/	expected	xente ‘people’
<yy>	0079 0079	/dʒ/	common	yyave ‘key’	Only in some places of Western Asturian
<y>	0079	/j/	expected	muyer ‘woman’
<ñ>	00F1	/ɲ/	expected	caña ‘cane’
<ḥ>	1E25	/h/	common	ḥacer ‘to do’	Eastern Asturian only
<ḷḷ>	1E37 1E37	/cç/	common	ḷḷábana ‘flagstone’	Only Western Asturian and south-central Asturias