Vowels[]
The following table includes all the vowel sounds found in the Nooksack language.
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | ||
Mid | ɵ, ə | o | |
Open | a |
Consonants[]
The following table includes all the consonant sounds found in the Nooksack language.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
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central | lateral | plain | rounded | plain | rounded | ||||||
Stop | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | |||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||||||
Affricate | plain | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||
ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ɬʼ | t͡ʃʼ | ||||||||
Fricative | plain | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||
ejective | ɬʼ | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||||
Approximant | plain | l | j | w | |||||||
glottalized | jʼ |