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Consonants
The table below shows the 18 consonant phonemes of Papuan Malay. The voiceless stops are usually unreleased at the end of a syllable. The phoneme /r/ has three allophones: a voiced alveolar trill, a voiceless alveolar trill, and a voiced alveolar tap.

Vowels
There are 5 vowel phonemes in Papuan Malay.

Vowel allophones
Below are the allophones of Papuan Malay vowels. Vowels in closed syllables are centralized: In the closed syllable [tɪŋ], the phoneme /i/ is realized as [ɪ]. In the open syllable [gi], the phoneme is realized as [i].