Shoshoni sounds

Vowels
Shoshoni has a typical Numic vowel inventory of five vowels. In addition, there is the common diphthong, which varies rather freely with , although certain morphemes always contain and others always contain.

Consonants
Shoshoni has a typical Numic consonant inventory:

Phonology
Shoshoni stops (including the affricate /ts/) and nasals are voiced and lenited between vowels (the stops and affricate becoming voiced fricatives and the nasals becoming nasalized glides), are voiced in nasal-stop clusters, and are lenited (but not voiced) following.

Short vowels are commonly devoiced word-finally and in unstressed syllables preceding.