Zenzontepec Chatino has 12 vowels: /a, ɐ, æ, e, ɛ, i, ɪ, o, ɔ, u, ʊ, ə/.
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | palatalized | plain | palatalized | labialized | |||||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t /t̪/ | ty /tʲ/ | c | k | ky /kʲ/ | kw /kʷ/ | ʔ | ||
| voiced | h /b/ | d /d̪/ | dy /dʲ/ | z /ɟ/ | g | gy /ɡʲ/ | gw /ɡʷ/ | ||||
| Affricate | tz /t͡s/ | ch /t͡ʃ/ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f /ɸ/ | ð /θ/ | s | x /ʃ/ | ç | ɣ /x/ | ɣy /xʲ/ | ɣw /xʷ/ | j /h/ | ||
| Nasal | m | n /n̪/ | ny /nʲ/ | ɲ | ŋ | ŋy /ŋʲ/ | ŋw /ŋʷ/ | ||||
| Approximant | b /β̞/ | l /l̪/ | ly /lʲ/ | y /j/ | w | ||||||
| Flap | v /ⱱ̟/ | r /ɾ/ | |||||||||