Vowels[]
Ngkoth has seven vowels:
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ø | ɤ | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ʌ | ɔ |
| Near-open | æ | |||
| Open | a | ɶ | ɑ | ɒ |
Consonants[]
Ngkoth has 17 consonants found in native words, and three consonants found only in loanwords:
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Voiceless Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t | (ʔ) | |
| Voiced Plosive | b | ɡ | ɟ | d̪ | d | ||
| Fricatives | β | ɣ | ʝ | ð | z | ʒ | |
| Nasals | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | ||
| Post-trilled | t͡r | ||||||
| Vibrant | ʙ | r | |||||
| Approximants | w | j | ɹ | ɻ | |||
| Laterals | ʟ | ʎ | l | ɭ | |||
/t͡r/ is a trilled affricate.
/β, ð, ʔ/ are only found in loanwords.