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 ===Phoneme Inventory===
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
+|+ Consonant inventory
+|-
+!
+! Labial
+! Dental
+! Alveolar
+! Palatal
+! Velar
+|-
+! Nasal
+| m
+| colspan="2" | n
+| (ɲ)
+| ŋ
+|-
+! Plosive
+| p b
+| colspan="2" | t d
+|
+| k g
+|-
+! Fricative
+| f v
+| θ ð
+| s z
+| (ç)
+| x ɣ
+|-
+! Affricate
+|
+| colspan="2" | ts dz
+|
+|
+|-
+! Trill
+|
+|
+| r
+|
+|
+|-
+! Approximant
+|
+|
+|
+| j
+| w
+|-
+! Lat. Approx.
+|
+|
+| l
+|
+|
+|}
+The palatals given in brackets are allophones of how palatalized /n/ and /x, ɣ/.
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
+|+ Vowel inventory
+|-
+!
+! Front
+! Central
+! Back
+|-
+! Close
+| i
+|
+| u
+|-
+! Near Close
+| ɪ
+|
+| ʊ
+|-
+! Close Mid
+|
+| ɘ
+| o*
+|-
+! Open Mid
+| ɛ*
+|
+| ɔ
+|-
+! Open
+| colspan="3" | a
+|}
+The starred vowels have long forms.
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
+|+ Diphthongs
+|-
+!
+! a
+! ɛ
+! o
+|-
+! ɪ
+| aɪ
+| ɛɪ
+|
+|-
+! ʊ
+| aʊ
+| ɛʊ
+| oʊ
+|}
+The ʊ-series of diphthongs are allophones of /aw/ and /ɛw/. If /oɪ/ is created for some reason, it is pronounced as [ɛɪ].
 ===Allophony===