Consonants[edit]

Haupers (1969) analyzes Stieng as having 25 consonant phonemes with three-way contrasts of voiced, unvoiced and pre-glottalized with aspiration described as a consonant cluster involving simple (i.e. not pre-glottalized) stops plus /h/.^[3] Analyses which include the aspirated series as independent phonemes yield 33 consonants and a five-way contrast.