The tables present the vowel and the consonant phonemes of Irula.
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː ɪ̃ | ɨ ɨː | u uː ʊ̃ |
| Close-mid | e eː ø̃ | o oː ɤ̃ | |
| Open-mid | œ œː ɛ̃ | ʌ ʌː ɔ̃ | |
| Open | æ æː | a aː ɶ̃ | ɒ ɒː ɑ̃ |
All vowels are centralized by certain neighbouring consonants. They are then transcribed [ï ë ä ö ü], etc., but they may be closer to [ɨ ɘ æ ɵ ʉ].
Consonants[]
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||||||
| Stop/Affricate | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | t* | d* | ʈ | ɖ | tʃ | dʒ | c | ɟ | k | ɡ |
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | ʃ | ʒ | ç | ʝ* | x | ɣ |
| Approximant (Lateral) |
ʋ | ɹ | ɻ | j | ɰ | |||||||||
| l | ɭ | ʎ | ʟ | |||||||||||
| Rhotic | ʙ | r̪ | r | |||||||||||