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This article details the phonology of the {{w|Laefevian language}}. It has a relatively large number of vowels and is notable for having a voicing contrast in almost all of its consonants.
[[Category:Laefevian language]][[Category:Laefevian appendices]]

== Consonants ==
There are 33 generally recognised consonants in Laefevian. The exact number, however, depends on the analysis in question.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonants in Laefevian
|-
! !! colspan="2" | Labial !! colspan="2" | Dental !! colspan="2" | Alveolar !! colspan="2" | Post-alveolar !! colspan="2" | Palatal !!colspan="2" |  Velar !! colspan="2" | Glottal
|-
! Nasal
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|m̥}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|m}} || colspan="2" | 
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|n̥}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|n}} || colspan="2" | 
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|ɲ̊}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ɲ}}
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|ŋ̊}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ŋ}} || colspan="2" | 
|-
! Plosive
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|p}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|b}} || colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|t}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|d}} || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | 
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|k}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|g}} || colspan="2" | 
|-
! Fricative
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|f}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|v}}
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|θ}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ð}}
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|s}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|z}}
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|ʃ}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ʒ}} || colspan="2" | 
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|x}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ɣ}}
| colspan="2" | [{{tipa|h}}~{{tipa|ɦ}}]
|-
! Rhotic
| colspan="2" | || colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|r̥}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|r}} || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" |
|-
! Lateral approx.
| colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | 
| style="border-right: 0;" | [{{tipa|l̥}}] || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|l}} || colspan="2" | 
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|ʎ̥}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ʎ}} || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | 
|-
! Lateral fricative
| colspan="2" | || colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|ɬ}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ɮ}} || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" |
|-
! Approximant
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [{{tipa|ʋ}}] || colspan="2" |  || colspan="2" | || colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|j}}
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|w}} || colspan="2" |
|}

== Vowels ==
There are nine monophthongs in Laefevian. 

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Vowels in Laefevian
|-
!  !! colspan="2" | Front !! Central !! Back
|-
! High
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|i}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|y}} || || {{tipa|u}}
|- 
! Close-mid
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|e}} || style="border-left: 0;" | {{tipa|ø}} || || {{tipa|o}}
|-
! Open-mid
| style="border-right: 0;" | {{tipa|ɛ}} || style="border-left: 0;" | || || {{tipa|ɔ}}
|-
! Open
| colspan="2" | || {{tipa|a}} || 
|}

== Prosody ==

== Morphophonemic processes ==