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Main article: Nämty

This page gives an extensive description of Nämty phonological features.

Consonants

The consonant system distinguishes 24 phonemes, traditionally arranged in the following scheme:

		IPA			Transcription
plosive	voiceless	[p]	[k]	[t]	p	k	t
	voiced	[b]	[g]	[d]	b	g	d
	palatal	[c]		[ɟ]	c		ɟ
nasal		[m]	[n]	[ɲ]	m	n	ň
liquid		[r]	[l]	[ʎ]	r	l	ʎ
fricative	sibilant		[s]			s
	post-alveolar		[ʃ]			š
	bilabial		[β]			β
	palatal	[ç]		[ɕ]	ç		ɕ
	glottal		[h]			h
	pharyngeal		[ħ]			ħ
affricate			[ʧ]			č
approximant			[w]			[w]

The group of the plosive consonants distinguishes four sub-groups: voiceless, voiced, palatal and uvular, even though the uvular sub-group includes only the phoneme [q].

The groups of the nasal and of the liquid consonants are slighty poorer, but anyway quite developed. There are noticeably two clearly distinct rothic phonemes, namely [r] and [ɾ].

The group of the fricative consonants is overall well developed and rich in points of articulation, with a limited distinction between some voiced and voiceless phonemes.

There are two affricate consonants, voiceless [ʧ] and voiced [ʤ]. The phoneme [j] can have only a full consonantal value and it is never regarded as a semivowel.