parrot phonology

this page describes how parrots mimic human speech
(assuming you know the IPA)

quaker parrots

• voiced plosives either are ambiguous or turn into voiceless equivalents (eg /p/→/b/, /g/↔/k/)
• fricatives except /s/ and /f/ vanish
• /ŋ/ also vanishes
• /r/ → /w/ sometimes
• end consonants except /l/ vanish
• /n/ spared from these shenanigans
• /e/ notably raspy or croaky, like a squawk