Editing Timbisha language (section)

==Phonology==
===Vowels===
Timbisha also has a typical [[Numic]] [[vowel]] inventory of five vowels. In addition, there is the common [[diphthong]] ''{{IPA|ai}}'', which varies rather freely with ''{{IPA|e}}'', although certain [[morphemes]] always contain ''{{IPA|ai}}'' and others always contain ''{{IPA|e}}''.  (The official orthography is shown in parentheses.)

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!
! [[Front vowel|front]]
! [[Central vowel|central]]
! [[Back vowel|back]]
|-
! [[High vowel|High]]
| {{IPAlink|i}} || {{IPAlink|ɨ}} {{grapheme|ü}} || {{IPAlink|u}}
|-
! [[Low-mid|Non-High]]
| || {{IPAlink|a}} || {{IPAlink|o}}
|-
! [[Diphthong]]
| {{IPA|ai}} {{grapheme|ai, e}}|| ||
|}

===Consonants===
Timbisha has a typical [[Numic]]  consonant  inventory.  (The official orthography is shown in parentheses.):
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
! rowspan=2 |
! rowspan=2 | [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! rowspan=2 | [[Coronal consonant|Coronal]]
! rowspan=2 | [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! colspan=2 | [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! rowspan=2 | [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Labialization|labial.]]</small>
|-
! [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPAlink|m}} || {{IPAlink|n}} || || {{IPAlink|ŋ}} {{grapheme|ng}} || {{IPAlink|ŋʷ}} {{grapheme|ngw}} ||
|-
! [[Plosive]]
| {{IPAlink|p}} || {{IPAlink|t}} || || {{IPAlink|k}} || {{IPAlink|kʷ}} || {{IPAlink|ʔ}}
|-
! [[Affricate]]
| || {{IPAlink|ts}} || || || ||
|-
! [[Fricative]]
| || {{IPAlink|s}} || || || || {{IPAlink|h}}
|-
! [[Semivowel]]
| || || {{IPAlink|j}} {{grapheme|y}} || || {{IPAlink|w}} ||
|}

===Phonotactics===
Timbisha stops (including the affricate) and nasals are voiced and lenited between vowels, are voiced in nasal-stop clusters, and are lenited (but not voiced) following ''{{IPA|h}}''.

[[Voiceless vowel]]s are less common in Timbisha than in [[Shoshone language|Shoshoni]] and [[Comanche language|Comanche]].