Okanagan phonology

Consonants
Consonant inventory of Okanagan:

Okanagan is also reported to contain the rare uvular flap.

Vowels
The vowels found in Lakes are: [i], [a], [u], [ə], and [o]. The [ə] is the single unstressed variant of the full vowels in Okanagan while the [o] vowel is found only in borrowed words. Stress will fall only on the full vowels [i], [a], and [u] in Okanagan.