Consonants
The consonant phonemes of Navajo are listed below.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lateral | fricated | plain | labial | plain | labial | ||||||
| Obstruent | Stop | unaspirated | p | t | tˡ | ts | tʃ | k | ʔ | |||
| aspirated | tʰ | tɬʰ | tsʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | (kʷʰ) | ||||||
| ejective | tʼ | tɬʼ | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | |||||||
| Continuant | fortis | ɬ | s | ʃ | x | (xʷ) | (h) | (hʷ) | ||||
| lenis | l | z | ʒ | ɣ | (ɣʷ) | |||||||
| Sonorant | Nasal | plain | m | n | ||||||||
| glottalized | (mʼ) | (nʼ) | ||||||||||
| Glide | plain | j | (w) | |||||||||
| glottalized | (jʼ) | (wʼ) | ||||||||||
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