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===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes
|-
!
! Labial
! Coronal
! Guttural
|-
! Nasal
| m
| n
| ŋ
|-
! Stops
| p b
| t tʷ
| k kʷ g
|-
! Fricatives
| f v
| s sʷ
| h
|-
! Approximants
| w
| j
| ʍ<sup>1</sup>
|}
Notes:
# During allophonic realisation, /w/ is affected by /ʍ/, however, in the writing system, it is seen and analysed as the soft version of /h/
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 250px"
|+ Vowel Phonemes
|-
!
! Front
! Back
|-
! Close
| i
| u
|-
! Mid
| e
| o
|-
! Open
| colspan="2" |a
|}
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
 
Kawa uses the Latin script with 2 additional letters: ⟨Ŋŋ⟩, ⟨Ƿƿ⟩
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Kawa Alphabet
|+ Kawa Alphabet
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| /ʍa/
| /ʍa/
| /sʷa/
| /sʷa/
|}
===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes
|-
!
! Labial
! Coronal
! Guttural
|-
! Nasal
| m
| n
| ŋ
|-
! Stops
| p b
| t tʷ
| k kʷ g
|-
! Fricatives
| f v
| s sʷ
| h
|-
! Approximants
| w
| j
| ʍ<sup>1</sup>
|}
Notes:
# During allophonic realisation, /w/ is affected by /ʍ/, however, in the writing system, it is seen and analysed as the soft version of /h/
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 250px"
|+ Vowel Phonemes
|-
!
! Front
! Back
|-
! Close
| i
| u
|-
! Mid
| e
| o
|-
! Open
| colspan="2" |a
|}
|}


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