Kakwa has 11 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u, æ, ɛ, ɪ, ɒ, ʌ/.
Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
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plain | creaky-voice | plain | creaky-voice | plain | creaky-voice | plain | creaky-voice | |||||
Stop | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ | ||||||
voiced | b | b̰ | d | d̰ | ɟ | g | ɡ̰ | |||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | f | s | ʃ | ç | x | h | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | j | j̰ | w | w̰ |