Alabama phonology

Consonants
There are fourteen consonant phonemes in Alabama:

is apico-alveolar,. The voiceless stops are typically fortis and unlike in many other Southeastern languages they are not voiced between vowels. All consonants can occur geminated. The post-alveolar affricate is realized as  when it occurs as the first member of a consonant cluster and the geminate is realized as. The only voiced obstruent in Alabama is, which is realized as when it occurs in coda (syllable final) position. The geminate is realized as. The two nasal phonemes become velar before the velar stop. In syllable-final position, is often realized as lengthening of the preceding vowel.

Vowels
There are three vowel qualities,. Vowel length is distinctive. Vowels can be nasalized in certain morphological contexts.

Prosody
In Alabama, the final syllable generally carries the primary stress, except in the case of certain grammatical operations which move the stress. There is also a pitch accent system with two contrastive tones: high-level and high-falling. The two phonemic tones have several different allophonic realizations depending on vowel length and neighboring consonants.