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Main article: Höśikə

This page gives an extensive description of Höśikə phonological features.

Consonants

The consonant system distinguishes 30 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]			c
	uvular		[q]			q
nasal		[m]	[n]	[ɲ]	m	n	ň
liquid		[r]	[l]	[ʎ]	r	l	ʎ
fricative	sibilant	[s]		[z]	s		z
	bilabial		[β]			β
	dental		[ð]			ð
	labio-dental		[v]			v
	velar		[ɣ]			ɣ
	alveolar	[ʃ]		[ʒ]	š		ž
	palatal		[ç]			ç
	post-alveolar		[ɕ]			ś
	glottal		[h]			h
	pharyngeal	[ħ]		[ʕ]	ħ		h́
affricate		[ʦ]		[ʧ]	ts		č
approximant			[ʧ]			č

The group of the plosive consonants distinguishes four sub-groups: voiceless, voiced, palatal, and uvular.

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

The groups of the nasal, of the liquid and of the retroflex consonants are slighty poorer, but anyway quite developed. The phonemes [j] and [w] can have both a semivocalic and a full consonantal value.

Vowels

There are 7 vocalic phonemes. No vowel makes any distinction either in length or in tone:

IPA					Transcription
[i]		[ɨ]		[u]	i		y		u
[e]				[o]	e				o
	[æ]					ä
		[a]					a