Diyari phonology

Consonants
Several of the nasals and laterals are allophonically prestopped.

The voiced alveolar stop may have trilled release  depending on dialect. Peter Austin (1988) suggests that this is due to Yandruwanhdha influence.

The voiced retroflex stop often becomes a tap  between vowels.

The stop is in complementary distribution with both the trill  and the flap. Austin (1981) analysed the trill as being the intervocalic allophone of, with the flap  being a separate phoneme. R. M. W. Dixon (2002) suggests that could be considered the intervocalic allophone of, so then  would be a separate phoneme. Having realized as  would parallel the realization of  as, and having  rather than  as a phoneme matches most other Australian languages.