The following description is for the two Abenaki dialects.
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Near-Close | ɪ~i | ʊ~o | |
| Mid | e | ə | |
| Open mid | ɛ | ʌ | |
| Open-mid nasal | ɔ̃ | ||
| Open | æ | a~ɑ | ɒ |
Consonants[]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar |
Glottal | Labio- glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p b | t d | c ɟ | k ɡ | kʷ ɡʷ | ||
| Affricate | t͡s d͡z | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ β | s z | ç ʝ | x ɣ | h | hʷ | |
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʟ | |||||
| Semivowel | j | ɰ | w |