Wahgi phonology

Consonants
Like other Chimbu languages, Wahgi has some unusual lateral consonants. According to Phillips (1973), Middle Wahgi has three lateral fricatives, all of which are voiceless in final position and optionally but freely voiced between vowels:
 * Dental appears as a "voiceless dental fricative lateral with voiceless grooved dental fricative release",, as well  as voiceless and voiced dental lateral fricatives,  and.
 * Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
 * A voiceless velar lateral fricative appears as voiceless  and voiced . These occur in free variation with a uvular flap  intervocalically, and with a voiceless affricate . Before dental and alveolar consonants, it assimilates to alveolar.

In North Wahgi, and in other related languages, the velar lateral corresponds to an alveolar lateral flap,.