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Labial
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Radical
Laryngeal
Bilabial
Labio-dental
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Alveolar
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Retroflex
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Uvular
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Epi-glottal
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Plosive
   ⁿb         t ⁿd               ⁿɡ ⁿɡʷ    
 
 
 
 
 ʔ
 
Nasal
   m           n               ŋ ŋʷ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                            
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
Tap, Flap
                                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
 ɸ           s               x xʷ                  
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                               w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
       l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Front
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Close
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Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Selected languages: Kwaio
UPSID number: 2433
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Austro-Tai, East Malayo-Polynesian
The languages has 21 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds: [ⁿb] [ⁿd] [t] [ⁿɡʷ] [ⁿɡ] [ʔ] [s] [ɸ] [xʷ] [x] [l] [w] [m] [n] [ŋʷ] [ŋ] [i] [u] [e̞] [o̞] [ä]
Comments:

Kwaio is spoken in the central mountains on
Malaita, Solomon Islands. Stress is usually penultimate.
Labialized velars only contrast before unrounded vowels.
/l/ is an alveolar flap before high vowels. /w/ only
occurs morpheme-initially and is in almost complementary
distribution with the labialized velar nasal.
Sources:

Keesing, R.M. 1985. Kwaio Grammar. Pacific Linguistics
series B, no. 88. Department of Linguistics Research
School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National
University.