Editing Tok Pisin (section)

===Consonants===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes{{sfn|Smith|2008|page=195}}
! colspan="2"|
! [[labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Coronal consonant|Coronal]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2"|[[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| {{IPAlink|m}}
| {{IPAlink|n}}
|
| {{IPAlink|ŋ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Plosive]]
! <small>[[voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPAlink|p}}
| {{IPAlink|t}}
|
| {{IPAlink|k}}
|
|-
! <small>[[voiced]]</small>
| {{IPAlink|b}}
| {{IPAlink|d}}
|
| {{IPAlink|ɡ}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Affricate]]
|
|
|{{IPAlink|dʒ}}
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2"|[[Fricative]]
! <small>[[voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPAlink|f}}
| {{IPAlink|s}}
|
|
|{{IPAlink|h}}
|-
! <small>[[voiced]]</small>
| {{IPAlink|v}}
| 
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant]]
| {{IPAlink|w}}
| {{IPAlink|l}}
|{{IPAlink|j}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]]
|
| {{IPAlink|r}}
|
|
|
|}

*Voiced plosives are pronounced by many speakers (especially of [[Melanesian languages|Melanesian]] backgrounds) as [[Prenasalized consonant|prenasalized plosives]].
*{{IPA|/t/}}, {{IPA|/d/}}, and {{IPA|/l/}} can be either dental or alveolar consonants, while {{IPA|/n/}} is only alveolar.
*In most Tok Pisin dialects, the phoneme {{IPA|/r/}} is pronounced as the [[alveolar tap|alveolar tap or flap]], {{IPA|[ɾ]}}. There can be variation between {{IPA|/r/}} and {{IPA|/l/}}.{{sfn|Smith|2008|page=200}}
*The labiodental fricatives {{IPA|/f v/}} may be marginal, with contrastive use present only in heavily Anglicized varieties.{{sfn|Smith|2008|page=195}} The use of {{IPA|/f/}} vs. {{IPA|/p/}} is variable.{{sfn|Smith|2008|pages=199-200}} There is also variation between {{IPA|/f/}} and {{IPA|/v/}} in some words, such as {{lang|tpi|faif}}/{{lang|tpi|faiv}} 'five'.{{sfn|Smith|2008|page=196}}
*Likewise, there may be marginal use of {{IPA|/ʃ ʒ/}}.{{sfn|Smith|2008|page=195}}