Vowels[]
Pemon has the following vowels:
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | ɵ | ɤ | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɞ | ʌ | ɔ | |
| Open | æ | a | ɶ | ɑ | ɒ | |
There are still texts only using Spanish characters, without distinctive characters for /o/ or /ɵ/. Diphthong sounds are [aɪ, au, ɔɪ, eɪ, oɪ, ɛɪ, ɔu, eu, ou, ɛu].
Consonants[]
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ |
| Lateral | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||
Allophones of /s n k j/ are [tʃ ŋ ʔ ʎ].