Kawaiisu sounds

Vowels
Kawaiisu has a typical Numic vowel inventory of six vowels.

Consonants
Kawaiisu has an atypical Numic consonant inventory in that many of the predictable consonant alternations in other Numic languages are no longer predictable in Kawaiisu. The Kawaiisu consonant inventory, therefore is much larger than the typical Numic language.


 * and are only found in loanwords.