Japanese phonology - modern consonants edit
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Place- less | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k ɡ | Q | ||||
| Flap | ɺ̠ | |||||||
| Fricative | s z | h | ||||||
| Affricate | ts | tɕ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | N | |||||
| Approximant | j | w̜ |
Old Japanese phonology (phonemes?) edit
Late Old Japanese (Heian) phonology edit
| Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | b | t d | k ɡ | ||
| Fricative | ɸ | s z | |||
| Affricate | (ts) | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Approximant | j | w |