Editing Gbe languages (section)

===Consonants===
The following phonetic segments are attested in Gbe languages:

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
|+Gbe languages consonants phonetic inventory (Capo 1991:39)
!colspan=2 rowspan=2|
!rowspan=2| [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
!rowspan=2| [[Labiodental consonant|Labio-<br />dental]]
!rowspan=2| [[Laminal consonant|Lamino]]<br />-[[Interdental consonant|interdental]]
!rowspan=2| Lamino-<br />[[Alveolar consonant|alveolar]]
!rowspan=2| [[Apical consonant|Apico]]-<br />[[Postalveolar consonant|post-alveolar]]
!rowspan=2| [[Alveolo-palatal consonant|Alveolo<br />-palatal]]
!colspan=2| [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
!colspan=2| [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
!colspan=2| [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
|-
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Labialization|lab.]]</small>
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Labial–velar consonant|lab.]]</small>
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>lab.</small>
|-
!colspan=2| [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPAlink|m}}
| ||
| {{IPAlink|n}}
| ||
| {{IPAlink|ɲ}}
|
| {{IPAlink|ŋ}}
| ŋ<sup>w</sup>
| ||
|-
! rowspan=2| [[Stop consonant|Plosive]] /<br />[[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
! <small>[[Voicelessness|voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPAlink|p}}
|
| {{IPAlink|t̪|t}}
| {{IPAlink|ts}}
| 
| {{IPAlink|tʃ}}
| 
| 
| {{IPAlink|k}}
| {{IPAlink|k͡p}}
| 
| 
|-
! <small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
| {{IPAlink|b}}
|
| {{IPAlink|d̪|d}}
| {{IPAlink|dz}}
| {{IPAlink|ɖ}}
| {{IPAlink|dʒ}}
| 
| 
| {{IPAlink|ɡ}}
| {{IPAlink|ɡ͡b}}
| 
| 
|-
! rowspan=2| [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
! <small>voiceless</small>
| {{IPAlink|ɸ}}
| {{IPAlink|f}}
|
| {{IPAlink|s}}
|
| {{IPAlink|ʃ}}
| || || ||
| {{IPAlink|χ}}
| χ<sup>w</sup>
|-
! <small>voiced</small>
| {{IPAlink|β}}
| {{IPAlink|v}}
|
| {{IPAlink|z}}
|
| {{IPAlink|ʒ}}
| || || ||
| {{IPAlink|ʁ}}
| ʁ<sup>w</sup>
|-
!rowspan=2| [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
! <small>plain</small>
| || || ||
| {{IPAlink|r}}
| || || || || || ||
|-
! <small>[[Nasalization|nasalized]]</small>
| || || ||
| r̃
| || || || || || ||
|-
!rowspan=2| [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
! <small>plain</small>
| || || ||
| {{IPAlink|l}}
|
| {{IPAlink|j}}
| {{IPAlink|ɥ}}
| {{IPAlink|ɰ}}
| {{IPAlink|w}}
| ||
|-
! <small>nasalized</small>
| || || ||
| l̃
|
| j̃
| ɥ̃
|
| w̃
| ||
|}
''Notes''
*The apico-[[postalveolar consonant]]s are generally written and transcribed with the symbols for the corresponding alveolar consonants, except for the voiced stop, which uses the symbol for the voiced retroflex stop {{IPA|[ɖ]}}. This is only to distinguish it from the lamino-dental voiced stop, and is not to be interpreted as the consonant being [[Subapical consonant|subapical]].
*The above table lists the attested ''phonetic'' segments. Some of the sounds listed here are in [[free variation]] with other sounds (e.g. '''r''' and '''r̃''' with '''l''' and '''l̃'''). The reader is referred to the individual languages for an overview of their phoneme inventory.

No Gbe language exhibits all of the above forty-two phonetic segments. According to Capo (1991), all of them have the following twenty-three consonants in common: '''b, m, t, d, ɖ, n, k, g, kp, gb, ɲ, f, v, s, z, χ, ʁ, r, r̃, l, l̃, y, w'''.