Consonants[]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||
| Affricate | tʃ (c) | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Trill | ʙ̥ (q) | ||||||
| Tap | ⱱ̟ (y) | ɾ (r) | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ (f) | s | ʃ | x | h | |
| voiced | β (v) | z | ʒ | ɣ | |||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ɰ (þ) | |||
Two of the sixteen consonants, /ʙ̥, h/ occur infrequently. /ʙ̥/ only occurs in expressive words, or before the vowel /u/. /h/ only occurs after a coronal consonant, like /a/ or /u/. There is also a specially rare occurrence of two implosive consonants, /ɓ/ and /ɗ/.
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɯ (e) | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |
| Low | æ | a | ɒ (o) | |