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===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes
|-
!
! Labial
! Coronal
! Guttural
|-
! Nasal
| m
| n
| ŋ
|-
! Stops
| p b
| t tʷ
| k kʷ g
|-
! Fricatives
| f v
| s sʷ
| h
|-
! Approximants
| w
| j
| ʍ<sup>1</sup>
|}
Notes:
# During allophonic realisation, /w/ is affected by /ʍ/, however, in the writing system, it is seen and analysed as the soft version of /h/
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 250px"
|+ Vowel Phonemes
|-
!
! Front
! Back
|-
! Close
| i
| u
|-
! Mid
| e
| o
|-
! Open
| colspan="2" |a
|}
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
 
Kawa uses the Latin script with 2 additional letters: ⟨Ŋŋ⟩, ⟨Ƿƿ⟩
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Kawa Alphabet
|+ Kawa Alphabet
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| /ʍa/
| /ʍa/
| /sʷa/
| /sʷa/
|}
===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes
|-
!
! Labial
! Coronal
! Guttural
|-
! Nasal
| m
| n
| ŋ
|-
! Stops
| p b
| t tʷ
| k kʷ g
|-
! Fricatives
| f v
| s sʷ
| h
|-
! Approximants
| w
| j
| ʍ<sup>1</sup>
|}
Notes:
# During allophonic realisation, /w/ is affected by /ʍ/, however, in the writing system, it is seen and analysed as the soft version of /h/
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 250px"
|+ Vowel Phonemes
|-
!
! Front
! Back
|-
! Close
| i
| u
|-
! Mid
| e
| o
|-
! Open
| colspan="2" |a
|}
|}


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/kn/, /gn/, /st/, /stʷ/, /sk/, /skʷ/, /kʷʍ/, /tʷʍ/, /sʷʍ/, /Nw/, /Nʍ/<sup>1</sup>, /Nj/<sup>2</sup>, /mb/
/kn/, /gn/, /st/, /stʷ/, /sk/, /skʷ/, /kʷʍ/, /tʷʍ/, /sʷʍ/, /Nw/, /Nʍ/<sup>1</sup>, /Nj/<sup>2</sup>, /mb/
# If a nasal consonant is followed by a /ʍ/, the nasal becomes voiceless
# [+nasal] > [-voice] /_ʍ
## m > m̥/_ʍ
# A speaker may realise /nj/ as /ɲ/ (nj > ɲ)
## n > n̥/_ʍ
## ŋ > ŋ̊/_ʍ
# A speaker may realise /nj/ as /ɲ/


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===Verbs===
===Verbs===
Verbs are marked for tense and mood with a particle
Verbs are marked for tense and mood with a particle.


{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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! Present
! Present
| gaŋqe
| gaŋqe
| rowspan="3" |qeqe!
| rowspan="3" |qeqe
| gaqegaŋ
| gaqegaŋ
|-
|-
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