Editing Duala language (section)

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" |
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|- align="center"
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
|{{IPA link|ɲ}}
|{{IPA link|ŋ}}
|
|- align="center"
! rowspan="4" |[[Stop consonant|Plosive]]/<br>[[Affricate]]
!<small>voiceless</small>
|{{IPA link|p}}
|{{IPA link|t}}
|{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}
|{{IPA link|k}}
|
|- align="center"
!<small>voiced</small>
|{{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|d}}
|{{IPA link|d͡ʒ}}
|
|
|-
!<small>prenasal vl.</small>
|{{IPA link|ᵐp}}
|{{IPA link|ⁿt}}
|
|{{IPA link|ᵑk}}
|
|-
!<small>prenasal vd.</small>
|{{IPA link|ᵐb}}
|{{IPA link|ⁿd}}
|{{IPA link|ⁿd͡ʒ}}
|{{IPA link|ᵑɡ}}
|
|- align="center"
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|{{IPA link|f}}
|{{IPA link|s}}
|
|
|{{IPA link|h}}
|- align="center"
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
|{{IPA link|w}}
|{{IPA link|l}}
|{{IPA link|j}}
|
|
|}
Sounds /b, d, ᵐb, ⁿd/ are heard as implosives [ɓ, ɗ], [ᵐɓ, ⁿɗ] when before close vowels /i, u/.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Paulian |first=Christiane |title=Esquisse phonologique du duala (République Fédérale du Cameroun) |publisher=Paris: Société des Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France (SELAF) |year=1971 |location=In Jacquot, André and Paulian, Christiane and Roulon-Doko, Paulette and Moñino, Yves (eds.), Etudes bantoues I |pages=53–88}}</ref>

[r] is heard as a variant of /l/ in loanwords.<ref>Helmlinger (1972)</ref>