Consonants[]
The voiceless implosives are highly unusual sounds. ƴ is pronounced /ˀj/.
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | prenasal | plain | prenasal | plain | prenasal | plain | prenasal | plain | prenasal | |||||
| Stop | voiceless | plosive | p | t | c | k | q | ' /ʔ/ | ||||||
| implosive | ƥ /ɓ̥/ | ƭ /ɗ̥/ | ƈ /ʄ̊/ | |||||||||||
| voiced | plosive | b | mb /ᵐb/ | d | nd /ⁿd/ | j /ɟ/ | nj /ᶮɟ/ | g | ng /ᵑɡ/ | ġ /ɢ/ | nq /ᶰɢ/ | |||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | 'j /ʄ/ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | x | h | |||||||||
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | ḿ /ɱ/ | n | ñ /ɲ/ | ŋ | |||||||||
| Approximant | l | y /j/ | w | |||||||||||
| Flap | r /ɾ/ | |||||||||||||
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | ||
| Close | unrounded | i iː | ĩ ĩː | ɨ ɨː | |||
| rounded | ʉ ʉː | u uː | ũ ũː | ||||
| Close-mid | ɪ ɪː | ʊ ʊː | |||||
| Mid | e eː | ẽ ẽː | ə əː | o oː | õ õː | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː | |||||
| Open | æ æː | a aː | ã ãː | ɑ ɑː | |||