Kanoê phonology

is limited to a few verb forms, ‿where it occurs before. is highly variable,, with the affricates being the more common, rare, and  most common before. is between vowels,  after  and occasionally initially. varies as. is before, a pattern which occurs during metathesis. is very rarely realized as. are nasalized after nasal vowels.
 * Consonants

Vowel qualities are, all oral and nasal; the nasal vowels have slightly different or variable pronunciations:.

Oral vowels are optionally nasalized next to nasal stops, with the variation of phonemically nasal vowels. varies as after  and next to an approximant. varies as after voiceless consonants. varies as after. Vowels may have a voiceless offglide (effectively ) when not followed by a voiced sound.

Vowels are long when they constitute a morpheme of their own. Stress is on the last syllable of a word. Maximally complex syllable is CGVG, where G is a glide, or, due to epenthesis in certain morphological situations or to elision, the final consonant may be. One of the more syllabically complex words is 'to shave'. Vowel sequences occur, as in 'chief'.