Yavapai has a large amount of consonant morphemes.
Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
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nor. | lab. | pal. | nor. | lab. | nor. | lab. | |||||||
Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | gʷ | gʲ | ɢ | ɢʷ | ||||
plain | p | t | c | k | kʷ | kʲ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||||
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | cʰ | kʰ | kʰʷ | ||||||||
Affricate | voiced | dʒ | |||||||||||
plain | tʃ | ||||||||||||
aspirated | tʃʰ | ||||||||||||
Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | ð | z | ʒ | ʝ | ɣ | ʁ | ɦ | ɦʷ | |||
voiced | β | θ | s | ʃ | ç | x | χ | h | hʷ | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ɴ | ||||||||
Trill | ʙ | r | ʀ | ||||||||||
Lateral | l | ʎ | ʟ | ʟ̠ | |||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | j | ɰ | w | ɥ |
Vowels are /a/, /æ/, /ɛ/, /e/, /i/, /ɔ/, /o/, /u/.