/ew/, /iw/, /ow/, /uw/, /?j/ (> [i]), /aj/, /aj/, /ej/, /ij/, /oj/, /uj/.

Consonants

The consonant inventory largely resembles Arabic: differentiated voicing; uvulars, pharyngeals (traditionally referred to as emphatics) ; requiring the pharynx muscles to contract and influencing the pronunciation of the following vowel, and no voiceless bilabial plosive.

The glottal stop is non-phonemic. It occurs at the beginning of vowel-initial

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