 Multiple studies favour classifying prenasalization as consonant clusters, not as separate phonemes.The /r/ phoneme is realised as either a short trill [] or more commonly as a single tap [] by most speakers.In some Arabic loans (nouns, verbs, adjectives), emphasis or intensity is expressed by reproducing the original emphatic consonants and the uvular , or lengthening a vowel, where aspiration would be used in inherited Bantu words.