Siye Phonology

Consonants	Labial	Coronal	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasals	m [m]	n [n]
Plosives	p [p] [pʰ]	t [t] [tʰ]			k [k] [kʰ]
Fricatives	p [ɸ]	s [s]	s [ʃ]	p [ç]	k [x]
Affricates		t [ts] [tsʰ]	k [ʧ] [ʧʰ]	p [tçʰ]	k [x]
Liquids	w [ʋ]	l [l]		y [j]
Miscellaneous	m [◌̃]

Outside the City, [ç] merges with [ʃ], even in Standard Siye.

Plosives and affricates are aspirated word-initially and verb-root-initially. Initial aspiration of plosives and affricates is far less common outside the City. m word-finally or before a consonant (including h) indicates a nasal vowel. h [0] is a placeholder after /m/ [ⁿ] and (in Early Siye and dialects) intervocalically.

Affrication	Place of Articulation	Before [u]	Before [i]	Notes
Labial	[p]	[ɸ]	[ç]
Initial Labial	[p]	[ɸ]	[tçʰ]
Dental	[t]	[ts]	[ʃ]	[ʃ] from [t] is an etymological spelling
Initial Dental	[tʰ]	[tsʰ]	[ʃ]	[ʃ] from [t] is an etymological spelling
Velar	[k]	[x]	[tʃ]
Initial Velar	[kʰ]	[x]	[tʃʰ]
Velar	[k]	[x]	[tʃ]
Initial Velar	[kʰ]	[x]	[tʃʰ]
Sibilant	[s]	[s]	[ʃ]
Initial Sibilant	[s]	[s]	[ʃ]

Oral Vowels	Front	Center	Back Unrounded	Back Rounds
Close	i [i]			u [u]
High Mid	e [e]			o [o]
Low Mid		a [ə]
Open		a [a]

Nasal Vowels	Front	Center	Back Unrounded	Back Rounds
Close-Mid	im [ɪⁿ]			um [ʊⁿ]
High Mid
Low Mid	em [ɛⁿ]		um [ʌⁿ]	om [ɔⁿ]
Open	am [æⁿ]

[ə] and [a], [ʊⁿ] and [ʌⁿ] are in free variation;

Update

As of 2246, unvoiced consonants are officially voiced before nasal vowels. In the City, this does not affect initial aspirated consonants, but in those dialects in which initial consonants are not aspirated, this voicing rule applies.