Consonants The Guinaang dialect of Central Bontok has the following inventory of consonant phonemes: Originally (as documented in the mid 20th century), the sounds pairs , , , were in complementary distribution and thus
allophones of the phonemes , , , and , respectively (e.g. for "blood"). With the introduction of loanwords from English,
Ilokano and
Tagalog, these contrasts have become
phonemicized. The phoneme was also introduced in modern loanwords. == References ==