Chru phonology

Consonant inventory
The following table lists the consonants of Chru.
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! colspan="2" | ! Labial ! Apical ! Alveolo-palatal ! Velar ! Glottal ! style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" rowspan="2" | Stop ! style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" colspan="2" | Fricative ! style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" colspan="2" | Nasal ! style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" colspan="2" | Approximant There exist post-aspirated consonants, , , but these behave as sequences of stop plus. For example, from the word ("to plane") the nominal  ("a plane") can be derived by infixation of -n-.
 * - style="background: #efefef;"
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiceless
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiced
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiced
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiced
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiced
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiced
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiced
 * style="text-align: left; background: #efefef;" | voiced
 * }
 * }
 * }
 * }
 * }
 * }

Vowel inventory
The vowel inventory is given in the following table. All vowels but exist in nasalized form.
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! ! Front ! Central ! Back ! High ! Upper Mid ! Lower Mid ! Low
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 * The vowel is always followed by.
 * The vowel is always followed by.

Phonotactics
Words consist of up to two pre-syllables, and a main syllable. A full example is ("to turn over"). The vowels in the pre-syllables are always after a consonant and  otherwise.