Movima phonology

Movima has five vowels: and more closely resemble  and, respectively, than the close-mid vowels  and. Vowels have a phonemic length distinction, although some prosodic processes can lengthen otherwise short vowels. Movima does not have tone.

The plosive is realized as  in the syllable onset but as  (which contrasts with the simple nasal phoneme ) in the coda. Similarly, and  are realized as  and  (i.e., as a glottal stop with a vocalic release), respectively, in the syllable coda. In vowel-initial words and between adjacent vowels, an epenthetic glottal stop appears.

The phonemes and  are only present in Spanish loanwords.