Guugu Yimithirr phonology

Vowels
Short may be realized as unrounded, and unstressed  may be reduced to.

Consonants
The stops are usually voiceless and unaspirated initially and after short vowels, and voiced after consonants and long vowels.

The retroflexes may not be single phonemes, but clusters of. However, there is at least one word which, for older speakers, is pronounced with a word-initial retroflex: "run", which is or.

The rhotic is normally a flap, but may be a trill in emphatic speech.

Phonotactics
All words, with the exception of a couple of interjections, begin with one consonant. The consonant can be a stop, nasal, or semivowel (that is, do not occur initially).

Words can end in either a vowel or a consonant. The allowed word-final consonants are.

Within words, any consonant can occur, as well as clusters of up to three consonants, which cannot occur initially or finally.