The inventory of surface sounds (whether allophones or phonemes) of Old English is as shown below. Allophones are enclosed in parentheses.
Consonants[]
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | (n̥) n | (ŋ) | ||||
| Stop | p b | t d | k ɡ | ||||
| Affricate | tʃ (dʒ) | ||||||
| Fricative | f (v) | θ (ð) | s (z) | ʃ | (ç) | (x ɣ) | h |
| Approximant | (l̥) l | j | (ʍ) w | ||||
| Trill | (r̥) r | ||||||
Vowels[]
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| Close | i iː | y yː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | (ø øː) | o oː | |
| Open | æ æː | ɑ ɑː | ||