Labial | Labiodental | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal |
/p/ p | /t/ t | /k/ k | /q/ q | |||
/b/ b | /d/ d | /g/ g | ||||
/pʰ/ ph | /tʰ/ th | /kʰ/ kh | /qʰ/ qh | |||
/ts/ ts | /tʃ/ c | |||||
/dz/ dz | /dʒ/ j | |||||
/tsʰ/ tsh | /tʃʰ/ ch | |||||
/f/ f | /s/ s | /ʃ/ sh | /x/ x | /h/ h | ||
/v/ v | /z/ z | /ʒ/ zh | /ɣ/ gh | |||
/m/ m | /n/ n | /ŋ/ ng | ||||
/l°/ lh | ||||||
/w/ w | /l/ l | /j/ y | ||||
/r°/ rh | ||||||
/r/ r |
Voicing and aspiration do not contrast in syllable codas; consonants in that position are usually written using voiced letters when word-final; otherwise they are written with voiced or unvoiced letters to match the voicing of the following segment.
TODO: that's not exactly right. Voicing and aspiration contrast in root-initial position and in initial consonants of certain prefixes that usually occur at the beginning of a word. There may be some relatively new derivational morphology that behaves like a root as well.
Syllable-final /q/ is generally realized as /ʔ/.
/i/ | i | /u/ | u | ||
/i:/ | ii | /u:/ | uu | ||
/ĩ:/ | iinh | /ũ:/ | uunh | ||
/e/ | e | /o/ | o | ||
/e:/ | ee | /o:/ | oo | ||
/ẽ:/ | eenh | /õ:/ | oonh | ||
/a/ | a | ||||
/a:/ | aa | ||||
/ã:/ | aanh |
There may be processes that nazalize short vowels, but they will become long in those circumstances.
A short vowel followed by /n/ is frequently pronounced as a short nasal vowel word-finally, although this pronunciation exists solely as an allophone of the corresponding /Vn/ sequence.
Syllables are CV(V)(C).
Roots are CV(V)(C)(C), although a final consonant cluster is usually simplified before a pause. The final C of a two-consonant cluster at the end of a root is more or less invariably /w/ or /j/, which derives from (and occasionally resurfaces as) original final /*u/ or /*i/.