Vowels[]
The analysis of Anindilyakwa's vowels is open to interpretation. Stokes analyses it as having 16 phonemic vowels. Leeding analyses it as having just two, /ɨ a/.
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ø | ɤ | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ʌ | ɔ |
| Open | a | ɶ | ɑ | ɒ |
Consonants[]
| Peripheral | Coronal | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Laminal | Apical | |||||||||||
| rounded | unrounded | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |||||||||
| Stop | p | b | kʷ | ɡʷ | k | ɡ | c | ɟ | t̪ | d̪ | t | d | ʈ | ɖ |
| Nasal | m | ŋʷ | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | ɳ | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | xʷ | ɣʷ | x | ɣ | ç | ʝ | θ | ð | s | z | ʂ | ʐ |
| Lateral | ʟ | ʎ | l̪ | l | ɭ | |||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | r | ɽ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | w | ɰ | j | ɹ | ɻ | |||||||||
Phonotactics[]
All Anindilyakwa words end in a vowel. Clusters of up to three consonants can occur within words.