PLD Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labialized | Plain | Labialized | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | nʷ ⟨ṅ⟩ | nʲ ⟨ñ⟩ | |||
| Plosive | p, b | t, d | tʷ ⟨ṫ⟩, dʷ ⟨ḋ⟩ | kʲ ⟨c⟩, gʲ ⟨j⟩ | k, g | kʷ ⟨q⟩, gʷ ⟨ġ⟩ | ʔ |
| Fricative | ɸ ⟨f⟩, β ⟨v⟩ | s, z | sʷ ⟨ṡ⟩, zʷ ⟨ż⟩ | xʲ ⟨š⟩, ɣʲ ⟨ž⟩ | x, ɣ | xʷ ⟨ẋ⟩, ɣʷ ⟨ẇ⟩ | h |
| Approximant | l | ɹʷ ⟨r⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | w | |||
All consonants save the glottals may also occur in the long grade.
An alternative romanization simply uses ⟨nw kw⟩ etc. for the labialized sounds, ⟨ny⟩ for the palatalized nasal, ⟨sh zh⟩ for the palatalized velar fricatives, and ⟨gh wh⟩ for the voiced velar fricatives.