Taos is a Tanoan language spoken by several hundred people in New Mexico, in the United States. The main description of its phonology was contributed by George L. Trager in a (pre-generative) structuralist framework. Earlier considerations of the phonetics-phonology were by John P. Harrington and Jaime de Angulo. Trager's first account was in based on fieldwork 1935-1937, which was then substantially revised in (due in part to the inclusion of juncture phonemes and newly collected data in 1947 in the analysis). The description below takes as the main point of departure and notes where this differs from the analysis of . Harrington's description (although from a different period) is more similar to . Certain comments from a generative perspective are noted in a comparative work . Segments The two following sections detail phonetic information about Taos phonological segments (i.e., consonants and vowels), as well as their phonological patterning in morphophonemic alternations. Consonants lists 27 consonants (25 native) for Taos, although in his later analysis he posited 18 consonants. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | ! rowspan="2" | Bilabial ! colspan="2" | Dental ! rowspan="2" | Alveolar ! rowspan="2" | Palatal ! colspan="2" | Velar ! rowspan="2" | Glottal |- class="small" ! ! central ! lateral ! plain ! labial |- ! rowspan="4" | Stop ! voiced | || || || || || || || |- ! unaspirated | || || || || || || || |- ! aspirated | || || || || || || || |- ! ejective | || || || || || || || |- ! colspan="2" | Fricative | || || || || || || || |- ! colspan="2" | Nasal | || || || || || || || |- ! colspan="2" | Flap | || || || || || || || |- ! colspan="2" | Approximant | || || || || || || || |} Words exemplifying Taos consonants are in the table below: {| class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.1em;" ! rowspan="2" | Consonant ! colspan="3" | Word-initial position ! colspan="3" | Word-medial position |- ! IPA !! Trager !! Gloss !! IPA !! Trager !! Gloss |- ! | || bòyi’ína || 'valley' | || į́ęsiabą || 'he kicked' |- ! | || pá || 'he made' | || cùpána || 'judge' (noun) |- ! | || phùyu’úna || 'fly' (noun) | || kȕphúone || 'act of dropping' |- ! | || p’óna ||