Editing Mbula language (section)

===Consonants===
The [[consonant]] [[phonemes]] of Mbula are as shown in the following table:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes
! colspan="2" |
! [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! [[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br>[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[Plosive]]
! {{small|voiceless}}
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
|-
! {{small|voiced}}
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|-
! {{small|prenasal}}
| {{IPA link|ᵐb}}
| {{IPA link|ⁿd}}
| {{IPA link|ᵑɡ}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Fricative]]
! {{small|voiceless}}
|
| {{IPA link|s}}
|
|-
! {{small|voiced}}
|
| {{IPA link|z}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Lateral consonant|Lateral]]
|
| {{IPA link|l}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
|
| {{IPA link|r}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Glide consonant|Glide]]
| {{IPA link|w}}
| {{IPA link|j}}
|
|}

The consonant {{IPA|/b/}} is realised as {{IPAblink|β}} intervocalically. Prenasalised stops, while requiring two phonetic units, exist as a single phonemic unit. The palatal glide {{IPA|/j/}} is treated as being underlyingly vocalic in morphophonemic analysis while the labio-velar glide {{IPA|/w/}} is analysed consonantally. All voiceless plosives, {{IPA|/p t k/}}, are optionally pronounced with a voiceless nasal release word finally. All velars are fronted or backed, depending on the vowel immediately contiguous to them within the same syllable. {{IPA|/t/}} is palatalized to a voiceless, laminal, post-alveolar plosive when followed by a morpheme boundary and {{IPA|/i/}}.