to local language. In Meriam influenced Broken, is dental, while is alveolar.

The stops , , , , and are aspirated and also have fricative allophones, particularly (thus , , , , , ) while and vary in pronunciation when word initial and medial between and , with only appearing at the ends of words in Torres Strait and Papuan dialects. These reflect indigenous language allophony as well as a rationalisation of the larger English (and Malay, etc.) consonant phoneme inventory. The consonants