Ventureño phonology

Ventureño has a similar phonemic inventory to other Chumash languages. Ventureño consists of 30 consonants and 6 vowels.

Vowels
Ventureño consists of a regular 5-vowel inventory with a sixth vowel transcribed as $\langle\rangle$. In Barbareño transcriptions, $\langle\rangle$ is used. It is not known whether these two phones are the same in both languages (and the difference in transcription merely one of convention), or whether the sounds were in fact different enough for Harrington to use different symbols.