and so Fong can be argued to have no phonemic nasal consonants, a pattern rather common in West Africa. is nasalized (to ) before nasal vowels, and may assimilate to before . is sometimes also nasalized.

The only consonant clusters in Fon have or as the second consonant. After (post)alveolars, is optionally realized as : kl? 'to wash', wlí 'to catch', jlò 'to want'.

Tone

Fon has two phonemic tones: high and low. High is realized as rising (low-high)

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