Dh r'i 'bellies'. Sequences of Vowels. Voiced consonants have the default back-tensed voicing, slightly strengthened to compensate for the back pressure generated by the oral stricture, as indicated by a characteristic drop in F 0 across the consonant. Voiceless consonants are produced with an interruption of the airflow through the glottis, by an unclear process. Voiced and voiceless consonants may appear in initial, medial, or final position.
Aspiration is a turbulent flow of air through the glottis.
Aspirated consonants do not occur in final position. In aspirated voiced consonants the posterior glottal stricture is produced in concert with the normal laryngeal back tensing of phonation. No aspiration has been recorded with the continuants n and N , nor with R or the rare, borrowed sounds Z and G . After a voiceless consonant the accentual turbulence appears as full-glottal voiceless breathy phonation . The turbulence of an initial h starts out voiceless and becomes whispery voiced by its end.