Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
Plosive | p b | t d | | | | k g | ʔ |
Nasal | m | n | | | | | |
Fricative | | | s z | ʃ | | ɣ | h |
Lateral Fricative | | ɬ | | | | | |
Approximant | | | | | j | | |
Lateral Approximant | | l | | | | | |
Affricate | | tɬ dɮ | | | | | |
Vowels
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| Front | Back | Diphthongs |
Close | i | u | uj |
Close-Mid | e | | ej |
Open | a | | aj |
Tones
'Ináwah technically only has two tones (high and neutral), but adjacent, identical vowels with contrasting tones may produce rising or falling tones with long vowel length in lax speech. A high tone is the marked tone and is denoted in romanization by an acute acent above the vowel and by a bar in native orthography.