Editing Wolof language (section)

===Consonants===
Consonants in word-initial position are as follows:<ref name=Ka>Omar Ka, 1994, ''Wolof Phonology and Morphology''</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ '''Wolof consonants'''
|-
! colspan=2 | 
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}} {{angbr|m}} || {{IPA link|n}} {{angbr|n}} || {{IPA link|ɲ}} {{angbr|ñ}} || {{IPA link|ŋ}} {{angbr|ŋ}}<ref>Or {{angbr|n̈}} in some texts.</ref> || || 
|-
! rowspan=3 | [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
! <small>[[Prenasalized consonant|prenasalized]]</small>
| {{IPA link|ᵐb}} {{angbr|mb}} || {{IPA link|ⁿd}} {{angbr|nd}} || {{IPA link|ᶮɟ}} {{angbr|nj}} || {{IPA link|ᵑɡ}} {{angbr|ng}} || || 
|-
! <small>[[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
| {{IPA link|b}} {{angbr|b}} || {{IPA link|d}} {{angbr|d}} || {{IPA link|ɟ}} {{angbr|j}} || {{IPA link|ɡ}} {{angbr|g}} || || 
|-
! <small>[[voicelessness|voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPA link|p}} {{angbr|p}} || {{IPA link|t}} {{angbr|t}} || {{IPA link|c}} {{angbr|c}} || {{IPA link|k}} {{angbr|k}} || {{IPA link|q}} {{angbr|q}} || {{IPA link|ʔ}}
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| {{IPA link|f}} {{angbr|f}} || {{IPA link|s}} {{angbr|s}} || || colspan="2" | {{IPA link|x}}~{{IPA link|χ}} {{angbr|x}} || 
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
| || {{IPA link|r}} {{angbr|r}} || || || || 
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| {{IPA link|w}} {{angbr|w}} || {{IPA link|l}} {{angbr|l}} || {{IPA link|j}} {{angbr|y}} || || || 
|}

All simple nasals, oral stops apart from ''q'' and glottal, and the sonorants ''l r y w'' may be [[gemination|geminated]] (doubled), though geminate ''r'' only occurs in [[ideophone]]s.<ref name=USPC>Pape Amadou Gaye, ''Practical Cours in / Cours Practique en Wolof: An Audio–Aural Approach.''</ref><ref>Some are restricted or rare, and sources disagree about this. Torrence (2013) claims that all consonants but prenasalized stops may be geminate, while Diouf (2009) does not list the fricatives, ''q'', or ''r y w'', and does not recognize glottal stop in the inventor.  The differences may be dialectical or because some sounds are rare.</ref> (Geminate consonants are written double.) ''Q'' is inherently geminate and may occur in an initial position; otherwise, geminate consonants and consonant clusters, including ''nt, nc, nk, nq'' ({{IPA|[ɴq]}}), are restricted to word-medial and -final position.  In the final place, geminate consonants may be followed by a faint [[epenthetic]] [[schwa]] vowel.

Of the consonants in the chart above, ''p d c k'' do not occur in the intermediate or final position, being replaced by ''f r s'' and zero, though geminate ''pp dd cc kk'' are common. Phonetic ''p c k'' do occur finally, but only as allophones of ''b j g'' due to [[final devoicing]].

[[Minimal pair]]s:<ref>Diouf (2009)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://resourcepage.gambia.dk/ftp/wollof.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623235249/http://resourcepage.gambia.dk/ftp/wollof.pdf |archive-date=2007-06-23 |url-status=live|title=Wollof - English Dictionary|date=1995|publisher=Peace Corps The Gambia|access-date=October 23, 2018}}</ref>

: ''bët'' ("eye") - ''bëtt'' ("to find")
: ''boy'' ("to catch fire") - ''boyy'' ("to be glimmering")
: ''dag'' ("a royal servant") - ''dagg'' ("to cut")
: ''dëj'' ("funeral") - ''dëjj'' ("[[cunt]]")
: ''fen'' ("to (tell a) lie") - ''fenn'' ("somewhere, nowhere")
: ''gal'' ("white gold") - ''gall'' ("to regurgitate")
: ''goŋ'' ("baboon") - ''goŋŋ'' (a kind of bed) 
: ''gëm'' ("to believe") - ''gëmm'' ("to close one's eyes")
: ''Jaw'' (a family name) - ''jaww'' ("heaven")
: ''nëb'' ("rotten") - ''nëbb'' ("to hide")
: ''woñ'' ("thread") - ''woññ'' ("to count")