Ibibio phonology

Consonants

 * are bilabial, whereas is labiodental.
 * has two allophones, which occur in complementary distribution: voiceless and voiced.
 * are alveolar, whereas is dental.
 * Stem-initial is realized as.

Intervocalic plosives are lenited:
 * → or
 * → or
 * → or

Vowels



 * are phonetically near-close.
 * are phonetically true-mid; is also strongly centralized:.
 * are phonetically near-open; is central rather than front:.

Between consonants, have allophones that are transcribed, respectively. At least in case of, the realization is probably somewhat different (e.g. close-mid ), because the default IPA values of the symbols are very similar to the normal realizations of the Ibibio vowels. Similarly, may actually be near-close, rather than close.

In some dialects (e.g. Ibiono), occur as phonemes distinct from.

Tones
Ibibio has two tones: high and low.