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===Consonants===
===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant Inventory
|+ Consonant inventory (Marina et. al, 2013)
|-  
|-  
! rowspan=2| !! colspan=2| Labial !!  colspan=2| Alveolar !! colspan=2| Palatal !!  colspan=2| Velar !! Glottal
! rowspan=2| !! colspan=2| Labial !!  colspan=2| Alveolar !! colspan=2| Palatal !!  colspan=2| Velar !! Glottal
|-
|-
!                                                 Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless
! Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless !! Voiced !! Voiceless
|-
|-
! Nasals  
! Nasals  
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| (ʍ) || w || colspan=3| || j || colspan=3|
| (ʍ) || w || colspan=3| || j || colspan=3|
|}
|}
* /n/ is realized as [ɲ] when '''adjacent''' to any palatal consonant, and as [ŋ] when '''preceding''' a velar plosive.  
* /n/ is realized as [ɲ] when '''adjacent''' to any palatal consonant, and as [ŋ] when '''preceding''' a velar plosive.  
* Voiceless plosives are typically unaspirated, but are usually aspirated word-finally.  
* Voiceless plosives are typically unaspirated, but are usually aspirated word-finally.  
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* When adjacent to any palatal consonant, /l/ may be realized as [ʎ] or [j]
* When adjacent to any palatal consonant, /l/ may be realized as [ʎ] or [j]
* Many speakers — especially younger ones — sonorize plosives when followed by a long vowel or diphthong carrying a high tone (see Pitch Accent below). For example, dēka > nēka, tobyá > tomyá, pyunam > byunam.  
* Many speakers — especially younger ones — sonorize plosives when followed by a long vowel or diphthong carrying a high tone (see Pitch Accent below). For example, dēka > nēka, tobyá > tomyá, pyunam > byunam.  
* Sometimes, in particularly casual speech, unstressed, final /s/ and /ɕ/ are debuccalized to [h].
* Sometimes, in particularly casual speech, unstressed, final /s/ and /ɕ/ are debuccalized to [h].  
 
An alternate analysis of the consonants of Saxuma is proposed by some linguists, such as that by Varda below.
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant inventory (Varda et. al, 2022)
|-
! colspan=2| !!  Labial !!  colspan=2| Alveolar !! colspan=2| Velar !! Glottal
|-
! colspan=2| !! plain !! plain !! palatal !! plain !! palatal !! plain
|-
! colspan=2| Nasals
| m || n ||  ɲ ||  colspan=2| (ŋ)
|-
! rowspan=2| Plosives !! voiceless
| p || t || ʨ || k  || (c) || ʔ
|-
! voiced
| b || d || ʥ || g || (ʥ)
|-
! rowspan=2| Fricatives !! voiceless
| ɸʷ⁓hʷ || s⁓ʦ, r̥ || ɕ || x || ç || (h)
|-
! voiced
| β || z⁓ʣ || ʑ⁓ʥ || colspan=3|
|-
! colspan=2| Approximants
| w || l || ʎ || ||  j ||
|}


===Vowels===
===Vowels===

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