The Mösiehuali̱ language has the following set of consonants:
| Labials | Apicals | Palato-alveolars | Velars | Glottals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | p | t | k | ||
| Voiced stops | (b) | (d) | (g) | ||
| Complex stops |
ts, t |
tš | kw | ||
| Fricatives | (f) | s | š | h | |
| Liquids | l, (r) | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | |||
| Semi-consonants | (w) | y | w |
The consonants which appear in red on the chart are those that occur in Nahuatl generally. Those which appear on the chart in gray and between parentheses occur almost exclusively in Spanish loan words.
The orthography used in the Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo represents these consonants with the letters shown in the following chart:
| Labials | Apicals | Palato-alveolars | Velars | Glottals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | p | t | c / qu | ||
| Voiced stops | b | d | g | ||
| Complex stops | tz, tl | ch | cu | ||
| Fricatives | f | s | x | j | |
| Liquids | l, r | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | |||
| Semi-consonants | b / f | y | hu / u |
The semi-consonant w is labial when it precedes a front vowel. It is written b in those cases. It is voiceless when it follows a voiceless consonant; the labial variant in this case is written as f. For example bejfeyi̱ = /wehweyI/ big (pl.). When the velar variant hu [w] occurs following a j [h], the combination is written ju, and when w occurs between o and a, it is not written at all. For instance, huajuanoa /wahwano(w)a/ it (a dog) barks.
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