Hausa has between 53 and 54 consonant phonemes depending on the speaker.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ʄ | ɠ | |||
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɟ | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||
| tenuis | p | t | tʃ | c | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
| ejective | pʼ | (t)sʼ | tʃʼ | cʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||
| Fricative | voiced | β | z | ʒ | ʝ | ɣ | ɣʷ | |
| tenuis | ɸ | s | ʃ | ç | x | xʷ | h | |
| Approximant | central | ɹ | ɻ | j | ɰ | w | ||
| creaky voice | j̰ | |||||||
| lateral | l | ɭ | ʎ | ʟ | ||||
| Vibrant | ʙ | r | ɽ | |||||