There are 40 single-consonant initials in the Namuyi language. Namuyi also has ten phonemic vowels, /i/ for [i], /e/ for [e], /ɛ/ for [ɛ], /ɨ/ for [ʃ,ɯ] /ʉ/ for [y], /ə/ for [ə], /a/ for [a], /u/ for [u], /o/ for [o], and /ɔ/ for [ɔ]. There is no phonological vowel length, though speakers can lengthen a vowel in the first syllable at times to emphasize a word.
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | aspirated | trilled | plain | aspirated | trilled | plain | aspirated | plain | aspirated | plain | aspirated | nasalized | plain | aspirated | ||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | pʰ | pʙ | t | tʰ | tʙ | k | kʰ | q | qʰ | ʔ | ||||||
| voiced | b | bʙ | d | dʙ | ɡ | ɢ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʂ | x | x̃ | χ | |||||||||||
| voiced | v | z | ʐ | ʁ | ɦ | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡sʰ | tʂ | tʂʰ | t͡ɕ | t͡ɕʰ | |||||||||||
| voiced | d͡z | dʐ | d͡ʑ | |||||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | w | l̥ | j | ||||||||||||||
| voiced | l | |||||||||||||||||