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Consonants
/s̺/ is a voiceless apico-alveolar fricative.

/ɬ/ is a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative.

The voiceless stops of Alabama (p,t,k) are typically fortis and do not generally undergo voiding or lenition in intervocalic position.

Geminates occur for every consonant sound in Alabama.

The voiceless post-alveolar affricate /tʃ/ is realizes as [s] when it occurs as the initial sound of a consonant cluster, but when it occurs in a geminate cluster /tʃ/tʃ/ the first /tʃ/ is realized as [t].

The only voiced obstruent of the Alabama language is /b/, a voiced bilabial stop and it is realized as [m] when it occurs in coda (syllable final) position. When /b/ occurs as a geminate (/b/b/) this cluster is therefore realized as [mb].

The two nasal consonants of Alabama (m,n) assimilate and become velar [ŋ] when they precede /k/ which is the only velar consonant found in the language.

When voiceless glottal fricative /h/ appears in coda position it often undergoes relaxation and is typically replaced with a lengthening of the vowel that occurs before it, this is especially frequent in rapid discourse.

Vowels
The vowels of Alabama are all tense and vowel length is contrastive.

/o/ is the only rounded vowel of Alabama, the others are unrounded.

The vowels of Alabama are often lightly nasalized, but only when this nasalization is representative of a morpheme, the most common occurrence of this nasalization is at the end of a question.

Stress
In Alabama, the stressed syllable is always the final one unless another syllable is accented.

Tone
The Alabama language has a pitch accent system.

High level tone and high falling tone are found in contrastive distribution and both occur in many of the verbs and nouns of Alabama, but also serve as morphemes in grammatical functions.

When the vowel is long, or if a syllable has a sonorant in coda position, the nucleus (central part or peak of a syllable) of the falling tone is elevated to a mid high pitch, which is distinct from and lower than the high level tone. When a syllable containing a falling tone has an obstruent in coda position, the tone is always mid high and does not fall.

The nucleus of high tone syllables is manifested as a sound that is much higher than that of the falling tone, and occurs as either level or very slightly raised when the nucleus consists of long vowel sounds.