Taos shares with other languages in the region (Pueblo linguistic area) an areal feature of vowel elision at the end of words.See Zuni phonology for examples in an unrelated neighboring language. When a word ends in a final vowel, the vowel may be deleted resulting in a consonant final word. This is especially common with final and occasionally with final . The elision is also very common when the final is preceded by a sonorant consonant such as , etc.
