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Consonants
Kunarek has a rather small consonant inventory comprising of nineteen phonemes. The only phonemes that occur in voiceless-voiced pairs are plosives. Unlike in English, plosives may never be aspirated and when /h/ is word final it is realised as [x].

Vowels
Kunarek also has a simple vowel system. There are five vowels, three front and two back. These vowels are never reduced.

Diphthongs
There are sixteen diphthongs in Kunarek. Ten of these are rising and six of these are falling. All vowels can produce rising diphthongs however close vowels cannot produce falling diphthongs.

Alphabet
Since, prior to this, the mapping of phonemes to letters has not been explicitly stated a complete alphabet is provided below: The names of letters are indeclinable. However, if declensions are needed then the letter is preceded by the word wef, [wɛf], ("letter [of the alphabet]" or "symbol") which is a normal noun and declines as such.

Phonotactics
In Kunarek the possible syllable structures are: V, CV, VC, CCV, CVC, VCC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC; where V is any monophthong or diphthong and C is any consonant.

Neither falling diphthongs nor close vowels may be followed by an approximant.

When word internal, two vowels must be separated by a consonant; this may include an approximant that may otherwise form part of a diphthong. For example naya ("flood") is analysed as containing a monophthong followed by a rising diphthong and hence is syllabified as na.ya, [na.ja], rather than nay.a, [naj.a].

In the syllable onset and coda only certain consonant clusters may occur. These consonant clusters are given below with their realisations in IPA. Note that these tables include the allophones of the consonants /m/, /n/, /s/ and /ʃ/.

Note also that tt and dd can only occur medially and are not realised as geminates, that is [tː] and [dː], but instead as the lateral affricates [tɬ] and [dɮ] respectively. This is in fact a rare consonant cluster but does, for example, occur in the word gadda [gadɮa] ("gale").

Other consonant clusters may also occur but these are only found in loan words or words of foreign origin that have been assimilated into the language.