Editing Luganda (section)

=== Alternative analysis ===
Treating the [[geminate consonant|geminate]] and [[prenasalised consonant|prenasalised]] consonants as separate [[phoneme]]s yields the expanded consonant set below:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!
! scope="col" | [[bilabial consonant|Labial]]
! scope="col" | [[alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! scope="col" | [[palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! scope="col" | [[velar consonant|Velar]]
|-
! scope="row" | Simple [[Plosive consonant|plosive]]
|{{IPA link|p}} {{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|t}} {{IPA link|d}}
|{{IPA link|c}} {{IPA link|ɟ}}
|{{IPA link|k}} {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[Geminate consonant|Geminate]] plosive
|{{IPA link|pː}} {{IPA link|bː}}
|{{IPA link|tː}} {{IPA link|dː}}
|{{IPA link|cː}} {{IPA link|ɟː}}
|{{IPA link|kː}} {{IPA link|ɡː}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[Prenasalised consonant|Prenasalised]] plosive
|{{IPA link|ᵐp}} {{IPA link|ᵐb}}
|{{IPA link|ⁿt}} {{IPA link|ⁿd}}
|{{IPA link|ᶮc}} {{IPA link|ᶮɟ}}
|{{IPA link|ᵑk}} {{IPA link|ᵑɡ}}
|-
! scope="row" | Simple [[Fricative consonant|fricative]]
|{{IPA link|f}} {{IPA link|v}}
|{{IPA link|s}} {{IPA link|z}}
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | Geminate fricative
|{{IPA link|fː}} {{IPA link|vː}}
|{{IPA link|sː}} {{IPA link|zː}}
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | Prenasalised fricative
|{{IPA link|ᶬf}} {{IPA link|ᶬv}}
|{{IPA link|ⁿs}} {{IPA link|ⁿz}}
|
|
|-
! scope="row" | Simple [[Nasal stop|nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
|{{IPA link|ɲ}}
|{{IPA link|ŋ}}
|-
! scope="row" | Geminate nasal
|{{IPA link|mː}}
|{{IPA link|nː}}
|{{IPA link|ɲː}}
|{{IPA link|ŋː}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
|
|
|{{IPA link|j}}
|{{IPA link|w}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[Liquid consonant|Liquid]]
|
|{{IPA link|l}}
|
|
|}

This simplifies the phonotactic rules so that all syllables are of one of three forms:
* V (only as the first syllable of a word)
* CV
* CSV
where V = [[vowel]], C = [[consonant]] (including geminate and prenasalised consonants), N = [[nasal stop]], S = [[semivowel]] (''i.e.'' either {{IPA|/j/}} or {{IPA|/w/}}).

[[Vowel length]] is then only distinctive before simple consonants (''i.e.'' simple plosives, simple fricatives, simple nasals, approximants and liquids)—not before geminate or nasalised consonants or at the end of a word.