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=== Vowels ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Modal-Mid-Short Vocalic Inventory
! || colspan="2"|Front-Central || colspan="2"|Central-Back
|-
! close
| i || ii || ui || u
|-
! mid
| e || ie || ue || o
|-
! open
| ae || ia || ua || a
|}



{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Breathy-Low-Long Vocalic Inventory
! || Front-Central || Central-Back
|-
! close
| ì: || ù:
|-
! mid
| è: || ò:
|-
! open
| colspan="2"|à:
|}


{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ High-Tense-Short Vocalic Inventory
! || colspan="4"|Front-Central || colspan="3"|Central-Back
|-
! || no glide ||  front glide || central glide || back glide || front glide || back glide || no glide
|-
! close
| í || íi || íe || ía || úi || || ú
|-
! mid
| é || ié || || ué || || || ó
|-
! open
| || || || || iá || uá || á
|}

=== Consonants ===

Akachenti has 25 consonants.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Phonemic Consonants
! colspan="2"|
! rowspan="2"|Labial
! colspan="2"|Alveolar 
! colspan="2"|Post-Alveolar
! rowspan="2"|Velar 
! rowspan="2"|Glottal
|-
| colspan="2"|
! <small>Pulmonic</small> || <small>Click</small>
! <small>Pulmonic</small> || <small>Click</small>
|-
! colspan="2"|Resonant
| m || n || ᵑǃ || ɾ~ɹ || ᵑǁ || ŋ ||
|-
! rowspan="2"|Stop
! <small>Fortis</small>
| rowspan="2"|b~p || t || ǃ || || ǁ || k || ʔ
|-
! <small>Lenis</small>
| d || ǃs || || ᶢǁ || g ||
|-
! rowspan="2"|Affricate
! <small>Fortis</small>
|  || || rowspan="2"|ǃx || tʃ || rowspan="2"|ǁx || || 
|-
! <small>Lenis</small>
|  || || dʒ || ||
|-
! colspan="2"|Fricative
| v~f || s || || ʃ || || x || ɦ (ç)
|}