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Nasals:
          /m/ has two allophones: [] the labio-dental nasal occurs before // and [m], the bilabial nasal occurs elsewhere.
 
[] ‘to refuse’ /m/
[th] ‘star’ /them/
[hmi] ‘enemy’ /Nummie/
[mi] ‘fire’ /mi/
[m] ‘body’ /umo/
 
          /n/ is the dental nasal. For some speakers, as pointed out in the ‘Angami Phonetic Reader’ (1974, CIIL) it is an alveolar nasal.
 
                               n                        ‘to copulate’
                               ni                     ‘they (du)’
                               kn                    ‘wrestling’
 
                    // is the palatal nasal
                               i                    ‘to be tired’
                               i                    ‘ear’
 
                    /h/ is the voiced velar nasal.

                                                     h                        ‘to see’
                                mh                   ‘bashful’
 
                    /mh/ is the aspirated bilabial nasal
                                mh                     ‘thing’
                                mh                  ‘eye’
                                mh                  ‘dream’
 
                    /h/ is the aspirated alveolar nasal
                                nh                      ‘grass’
                                knh                  ‘ointment’
 
                    /h/ is the aspirated palatal nasal.
                                h                     ‘to marry’
                                hi                  ‘nerve’
                                th                  ‘snake’
Liquids:
                    /l/ is the alveolar lateral.
                                 l                        ‘for’
                                 til                    ‘rice pot’
 
                    /r/ is the post-alveolar trill.
                                 r                        ‘place; village’
                                 r                        ‘to aim at’
                                 thr                ‘poison’
 
                    /lh/ is the aspirated alveolar lateral
                                 lh                        ‘page’
                                 tlh                    ‘paddy’
 
                    /rh/ is the aspirated post-alveolar trill
                                 rh                        ‘quick’
                                 mrh                   ‘basket’
                                 trh                    ‘louse’
          The following is a set of minimal/ sub-minimal pairs given to establish the contrasts.
          1.    p  ÷  ph  ÷  b
                                 p                         ‘tremble’
                                 ph                       ‘to pull out (tooth)’
                                 b                         ‘to cut hair’
          2.    t  ÷   th  ÷  d
                                 t                         ‘to run’
                                 th                        ‘to stand’
                                 d                         ‘to cut grass’
          3.    k  ÷   kh  ÷  g
                                 k                         ‘sugarcane’
                                 kh                       ‘to tie’
                                 g                        ‘to grind’
          4.   pf  ÷   bv
                                 pf                       ‘to carry on back’
                                 bv                      ‘swelling after death’
          5.   ts  ÷   dz
                                 ts                       ‘pain’
                                 dz                       ‘water’
          6.   ts  ÷   c
                                 lts                    ‘silk’
                                 c                        ‘tea’
          7.   dz  ÷    j
                                 mthdz       ‘wild pig’
                                 thj                   ‘blessing’
 

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