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 Consonants 

The consonants of Agusan Manobo are divided into two categories. The first category is the 'Stops,' which includes [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g], and [ʔ]. These stops represent what occurs when passive and active articulators come together to make a complete closure that stops air from leaving a mouth. Pressure is then built up behind the lips, and released with a 'pop.' In the Agusan Manobo language, these stops have "unreleased variants when occurring before another consonant, silence, and in syllable final position" (Weaver 4). Which means that the active and passive articulators will go into position to create the stop, but instead of releasing, they will hold the articulatory gesture. The glottal stop, [ʔ], occurs in all consonant positions, the be ginning of a word, between vowels in a word, the end of th wowed, and even occurs in all positions of a consonant cluster (Weaver 4).

The second category of the consonants is the 'Continuants,' which includes [m], [n], [ŋ], [r], [l], [h], [s], [w], and [j]. All of these consonants occur in the "syllable initial position" (Weaver 5). All of these consonant, with the exemption of [h], occur at the end of a word (Weaver 5). It is important to note that because of regional influences, the people who speak this language use the consonant [d] interchangeably with [j] (Weaver 5).  Vowels 

There are only five vowels used when talking in the Agusan Manobo language. These vowels are [i], [u], [e], [æ], and [a]. Vowels may appear alone, after a consonant, or between consonants in a syllable. All vowels, with the exception of [æ], may occur "in a sequence of identical vowels separated by a glottal stop". It is also mentioned that the vowel [e], can never occur next to the consonant [r].