Editing Kobon language (section)

===Consonants===
Kobon distinguishes an [[alveolar lateral]] {{IPA|/l/}}, a [[palatal lateral]] {{IPA|/ʎ/}}, a subapical [[retroflex lateral flap]] {{IPA|/𝼈&thinsp;/}} ({{IPA|ɭ̆}}&thinsp;), and a [[Alveolar trill#Voiced alveolar raised non-sonorant trill|fricative trill]] {{IPA|/r̝/}}, though the frication on the latter is variable.

{| class="wikitable IPA" style="text-align:center"
|+Kobon consonants and their allophones<ref>Davies (1981: 215 ff)</ref>
|-
! colspan="2" |
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Pharyngeal consonant|Pharyngeal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |Nasal
| m {{angle bracket|m}} || n {{angle bracket|n}} || ɲ {{angle bracket|ñ}} || ŋ {{angle bracket|ŋ}} ||
|-
! rowspan="2" |Obstruent
!<small>lenis</small>
| mb [p~b~mb~mpʰ] {{angle bracket|b}} || nd [tʰ~d~nd~ntʰ] {{angle bracket|d}} || ndʑ [dʑ~ɲdʑ~ɲtɕ] {{angle bracket|j}} || ŋɡ [k~ɡ~ɣ~ŋɡ~ŋkʰ] {{angle bracket|g}} ||
|-
!<small>fortis</small>
| f [f~ɸ~β~v~ʋ~p̚] {{angle bracket|p}} || s {{angle bracket|s}} || tɕ [tɕ~dʑ] {{angle bracket|c}} || x [kʰ~kx~x~ɣ] {{angle bracket|k}} || 
|-
! colspan="2" |Lateral
| || l [l~ɬ] {{angle bracket|l}} || ʎ {{angle bracket|ɫ}} || ||
|-
! colspan="2" |Rhotic
| || r [ɾ̝̊~ɾ̥~ɾ~r̝̊~r̥~r] {{angle bracket|r}} || [[retroflex lateral flap|𝼈]] [ɭ~ɽ~ɽ̊] {{angle bracket|ƚ}} || ||
|-
! colspan="2" |Approximant
| w {{angle bracket|w}} || || j {{angle bracket|y}} || || ħ [h] {{angle bracket|h}}
|}

Voiced obstruents may be prenasalized after vowels, depending on the preceding consonant, and are voiceless word-initially. Liquids other than {{IPA|/ʎ/}} tend toward [[final devoicing]]. For example, final {{IPA|/d/}} is {{IPA|[ntʰ]}} and final {{IPA|/l/}} tends to {{IPA|[ɬ]}}. ({{IPA|/w/}} and {{IPA|/j/}} do not occur in final position, while nasals and {{IPA|/ʎ/}} retain voicing.) Voiceless consonants other than {{IPA|/s/}} and {{IPA|/h/}} are optionally voiced between vowels.

{{angle bracket|ƚ}} is sublaminal retroflex. It has been described as a lateral flap, {{IPA|[[Retroflex lateral flap|[𝼈&thinsp;]]]}}.

All consonants occur syllable initially, though {{IPA|/ŋ/}} only occurs word-initially in a single mimetic word. All consonants but {{IPA|/h j w/}} occur syllable- and word-finally. Clusters occur in many (C)VC.CV(C) words, as well as initially in a handful of mostly monosyllabic CCV(C) words. Attested initial clusters are {{IPA|/bɽ, xɽ, fr, xl/}}.

{| class="wikitable IPA"
|+Kobon positional allophones
|-
! !!word-initially!!intervocalically!!word-finally
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|r}}
|ɾ̥~ɾ̝̊
|ɾ~r
|ɾ̥~ɾ̝̊~r̥~r̝̊~ɾ~r
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|ƚ}}
|colspan=2|ɽ
|ɭ~ɽ~ɽ̊
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|l}}
|colspan=2|l
|ɬ~l
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|k}}
|colspan=3|kʰ~k͜x~x<br/>also ɣ intervocalically
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|p}}
|ɸ~f
|β~ʋ<ref>Word medially next to a consonant, {{angbr|p}} is {{IPA|[ɸ]}} or {{IPA|[β]}} depending on the voicing of that consonant.</ref> (occas. v)
|ɸ~p̚
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|c}}
|t͡ɕ
|t͡ɕ~d͡ʑ
|t͡ɕ
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|g}}
|ɡ~k
|ɡ~ɣ, ŋ͡ɡ
|ŋ͡kʰ
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|j}}
|d͡ʑ
|d͡ʑ, ɲ͡d͡ʑ
|ɲ͡t͡ɕ
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|d}}
|d
|d, n͜d
|n͜tʰ (occas. tʰ)
|-align=center
!{{angle bracket|b}}
|b (occas. p)
|b, m͜b
|m͡pʰ
|}

Intervocalically, the lenis obstruents are oral {{IPA|[b d dʑ ɡ~ɣ]}} when a nasal or another lenis obstruent occurs in the preceding syllable, and are prenasalized {{IPA|[mb nd ɲdʑ ŋɡ]}} otherwise, with some variability after {{IPA|/h/}}. They are often oral in a medial cluster after another consonant. Otherwise the allophones in the table above are largely in [[free variation]].