Mambai language (Timor)

Phonology

Consonants

• /r, h, k/ can also be heard as .
• /p, k/ can also be heard as aspirated .
• /d/ is also heard as a voiced post-alveolar stop .
• /t/ is slightly aspirated before mid and low vowels. /t/ can also have an allophone when preceding high vowels.
• The plosives /p, b, t, d, k/ are unreleased in word-final position.

  Vowels

• /i, u/ can also have shortened allophones .