Syllables may be vowel only, consonant-vowel, or consonant--vowel. is a lateral approximant initially, a lateral flap between vowels and after most consonants ( "country"), but a central tap after alveolars ( "blood"). After a nasal (), it is itself nasalized, and sounds like a short n. There is a short epenthetic vowel between the initial consonant and the flap, which takes the quality of the syllabic vowel that follows ( "country"). Flap clusters occur with all consonants, even the approximants ( "top"), apart from the alveolar sonorants and the marginal consonant , which is only attested in the syllable .
Syllables may be vowel only, consonant-vowel, or consonant--vowel. is a lateral approximant initially, a lateral flap between vowels and after most consonants ( "country"), but a central tap after alveolars ( "blood"). After a nasal (), it is itself nasalized, and sounds like a short n. There is a short epenthetic vowel between the initial consonant and the flap, which takes the quality of the syllabic vowel that follows ( "country"). Flap clusters occur with all consonants, even the approximants ( "top"), apart from the alveolar sonorants and the marginal consonant , which is only attested in the syllable .