volo	volo	‘cock, male bird’
var	var	‘throw’
van	van	‘bring’
kIvi	kivi	‘lookafter animal’
tove	tove	‘yesterday night’
pvIr	pavir	‘make loose’
rvIn	arvin	‘drive animal to graze’
prvU	parvu	‘load animal’
/y/ has two allophones [ ] and [y]. /y/ is realized as [ ], the high-front unrounded non-syllabic vowel after a vowel and before a consonant or in the final position
th the	thoythe	‘cucumber’
c n	cayno	‘cow, bull’
ch du	chaydu	‘wife’s sister’s husband’
pda	paday	‘pretend’
pE	pey	‘mother’
nI?i	ni?oy	‘regret’
ri 9	roy	‘stitch’
/y/ is realized as [y], the palatal frictionless continuant before a vowel.
porIyal	poriyal	‘family’
dIya	diya	‘accuse or suspicion’
hnyahi~	honyahi	‘sanyasi’
xnyahi
CLUSTERS
Vowels :
In Karbi, vowel clusters do not occur within a morpheme. The occur only across morphemic boundary.
Initial
aa	kItUnta aan	‘cooked rice’
ao	la aok	‘fish’
au	aum	‘cage’
Medial
io	jonthiohe	‘be short!’
eo	keo	‘more’
oi	coikpo	‘will eat (Hon.)’
oa	koan	‘how many’
ou	coun	‘be able to eat’
Final
io	thio	‘very short’
oo	heloo	‘very far’
eo	theo	‘very big’
uo	ruo	‘very clever’
Consonants:
Two Consonant Clusters
Initial
pl	plagvuk	‘a kind of s bat’
pr prapjin ‘fast’ phl phli ‘four’ thr throk ‘six’ kl klem ‘do’ kr krom kethe ‘stout person’ gy gyani ‘wise person’