Somali language
Consonants

Somali has 22 consonant phonemes.

The retroflex plosive /ɖ/ may have an implosive quality for some Somali Bantu speakers, and intervocalically it can be realized as the flap. Some speakers produce /ħ/ with epiglottal trilling as / ʜ / in retrospect. /q/ is often epiglottalized.

The letter ⟨ dh ⟩ is a retroflex flap when it is pronounced intervocalically, hence becoming the phoneme (ɽ): for example, Qu r aanjo (Ant) from Qu dh aanjo; But however, more often than not is the pronouncement of ɽ to the unretained-retroflex ɾ.

The letter ⟨ kh ⟩ is rarely pronounced as a velar fricative, Partially the reason why is that it is mostly found in Arabic loanwords. It is pronounced as the phoneme χ when it is an allophone for the letter ⟨ q ⟩ in syllabic codas. As in A kh ri from A q ri meaning (read).
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