Editing Cheyenne language (section)

===Consonants===
* The [[phoneme]] {{IPA|/h/}} is realized as {{IPA|[s]}} in the environment between {{IPA|/e/}} and {{IPA|/t/}} (h > s / e _ t). {{IPA|/h/}} is realized as {{IPA|[ʃ]}} between {{IPA|[e]}} and {{IPA|[k]}} (h > ʃ / e _ k) i.e.  {{IPA|/nahtóna/|lang=chy}} {{Lang|chy|nȧhtona}} – 'alien', {{IPA|/nehtóna/|lang=chy}} {{Lang|chy|nėstona}} – 'your daughter', {{IPA|/hehke/|lang=chy}} {{Lang|chy|heške}} – 'his mother'.
* The digraph {{Grapheme|ts}} represents assibilated {{IPA|/t/}}; a phonological rule of Cheyenne is that [[underlying representation|underlying]] {{IPA|/t/}} becomes [[affricate]]d before an {{IPA|/e/}} {{IPA|(t > ts/_e)}}. Therefore, "ts" is not a separate phoneme, but an [[allophone]] of {{IPA|/t/}}. 
* The sound {{IPA|[x]}} is not a phoneme, but derives from other phonemes, including {{IPA|/ʃ/}} (when {{IPA|/ʃ/}} precedes or follows a non-front vowel, {{IPA|/a/}} or {{IPA|/o/}}), and the past tense [[morpheme]] {{IPA|/h/}} which is pronounced {{IPA|[x]}} when it precedes a morpheme which starts with {{IPA|/h/}}.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Consonants
|-
!
![[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]
![[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br/>alveolar]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
![[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| {{IPAlink|m}}
| {{IPAlink|n}}
|
|
|
|-
![[Plosive]]
| {{IPAlink|p}}
| {{IPAlink|t}}
|
| {{IPAlink|k}}
| {{IPAlink|ʔ}}
|-
![[Fricative]]
| {{IPAlink|v}}
| {{IPAlink|s}}
| {{IPAlink|ʃ}}
| ({{IPAlink|x}})
| {{IPAlink|h}}
|}