Consonants The voiced consonant phonemes have nasal allophones of , respectively, which occur in nasal syllables. is exclusive to loanwords. In medial position, may be realized as fricatives ; both variants have nasal allophones in nasal syllables, as in ~ . may be additionally realized as prevelarized word-initially. also has an allophone of in a single loanword, ~.
Vowels Suprasegmentals Nasalization is a suprasegmental feature in Epena. It typically spreads rightward in a word, though sometimes also to the left, and is "associated with the syllable".
Phonotactics Words in Epena may be composed of one to seven syllables, though most contain two to four. Consonant clusters are very rare, and may only be composed of two consonants. == References ==