The Kpwe phonological inventory is as follows,
Vowels Consonants §, the 'liquidized alveolar fricative', may be realized as , , or . This sound is rendered in some sources, and is cognate to in
Bubia. and in parentheses are only found in loans, while is very uncommon and in many inflections freely alternates as .
Tone Kpwe contrasts five
tones on short syllables: high,
downstepped high, low, rising and falling. == Literature ==