PHONEMES OF THE ALU DIALECT OF AKHA. 35 0. THE AKHA TRIBE AND THE AKHA LANGUAGE 36 1. PHONEMES OF THE ALU DIALECT OF AKHA 38 1.1. A Résumé 38 1.2. Syllabic structure 38 1.3. Syllable-initial consonants 39 1.4. Syllable-medial vowels 40 1.5. Syllable-final consonants 41 1.6. Tones 42 1.7. Limitation of distributions of phonemes 42 1.8. Phonetic analysis of each phoneme 44 2. THE ALU DIALECT AND THE SENCHAI DIALECT 48 2.1. Structure of syllables 48 2.2. Phonemes of the Senchai dialect 48 2.3. The differences between the Alu and Senchai dialects 49 2.4. Other points of difference 52CONCLUSION 52Bibliographical reference 53