Phoneme inventory

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n
Stop p t k
Affricative t͡s
Fricative s z x ʁ h
Approximant w l j

Vowels

Front Back
Close i u
Mid
Open æ ɑ

The h phoneme is realized as /h/ or /ɦ/ intervocalically, aspiration /ʰ/ after unvoiced consonants, or breathy voice /ʱ/ after voiced consonants, e.g. /mʱ nʱ/.

For the purposes of this article, t͡s is written as c, ʁ is written as r, ɑ is written as a, and the mid vowels as e and o without the lowering diacritics. (In the lore, j is written as y by the anglophone convention, t͡s is written as ts, x is written as kh, and ʁ is written as r.)