Tlingit Language - Phonology

Phonology

Tlingit, like many North American aboriginal languages, has a rich and complex phonological system. It has an almost complete series of ejective consonants accompanying its stop, fricative, and affricate consonants. The only missing ejective consonant in the Tlingit series is pronounced . Some speakers seem to be able to produce this phone, but have difficulty distinguishing it from ch' . Tlingit is also notable for having several laterals but no voiced, and no labials in most dialects, except for and in recent English loanwords.