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Main article: Bīṙ

This page gives an extensive description of Bīṙ phonological features.

Consonants

The consonant system distinguishes 15 phonemes, traditionally arranged in the following scheme:

		IPA			Transcription
plosive	voiced	[b]	[g]	[d]	b	g	d
	uvular		[q]			q
nasal		[m]		[n]	m		n
liquid		[r]		[l]	r		l
fricative	sibilant	[s]		[z]	s		z
	glottal		[h]			h
	labio-dental		[v]			v
	bilabial		[β]			β
	uvular		[ʁ]			ṙ
affricate			[ʦ]			c

The group of the plosive consonants is essentially well developed and distinguishes two sub-groups: voiceless and voiced.

The groups of the nasal is slighty poorer, but anyway quite developed. The group of the liquid consonants is remarkably scarce, with the only phoneme [r].

The group of the fricative consonants is overall well developed and rich in points of articulation, but it displays no distinction between voiced and voiceless phonemes, except in the sub-group of the palato-alveolar consonants.

There are two affricate consonants and only one approximant phoneme, [j], which has a full consonantal value and it is never regarded as a semivowel.