Consonants (Ongwaqa)
Each consonantal grapheme is constructed from one or more graphic features, at least one of which encodes its place and manner of articulation.
The superimposition of graphic features does not represent sequences of consonants or consonant clusters. Rather, it represents the internal structure of a single consonantal phoneme by encoding multiple articulatory properties simultaneously within a single integrated grapheme.
The position of the consonant graphemes largely corresponds to the place of articulation:
- Labials and nasals are positioned outside the triangle, at the apex.
- Alveolars are across the middle of the triangle from side to side.
- Dentals are a line across the triangle from side to side, parallel to each other.
- Velars and palatals are at the base.
- Laterals are outside the triangle on one side.
The shape of the consonant grapheme corresponds to the manner of articulation:
- Fricatives are indicated by curved lines; with the retroflex/whistled and postalveolar fricatives being loops.
- Plosives are indicated by straight lines in the same position as their fricative counterparts.
- A plosive is written together with a fricative to write an affricate. The post-alveolar and retroflex affricates are ligatures, with the plosive line integrated into the fricative loops.
- Approximants and trills are represented with parallel lines or a line with a right angle in it.
- Nasals, including prenasalization of plosives and affricates, are represented as circles at the apex of the triangle. Lines inside the circles distinguish the nasals from each other, unless a plosive is present, in which case the distinction is not necessary.
- Clicks are a bottomless hourglass-like shapes.
- Onset clusters are similar to affricates: both consonants are placed in the triangle, though some spacial adjustment may be necessary.
- Syllabic laterals and trills are represented with duplication of the ordinary lateral and trill graphemes.
- Syllabic nasals, amaQanda, are unique in that they are circles rather than triangles that occupy the entire iBheqe They follow the same principles as their onset-nasal counterparts.
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | Lateral (dental or alveolar) |
| Plosive |  /pʰ/ |
 /t̪ʰ/ |
 /tʰ/ |
 /cʰ/ |
 /kʰ/ |
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| Fricative |  /ɸ/ |
 /f/ |
 /s/ |
 /ʃ/ |
 /ʂ/-/sᶲ/ |
 /x/ |
 /ħ/[a] |
 /h/ |
 /ɬ/ |
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| Affricate[b] |  /p͡fʰ/ |
 /t͡sʰ/ |
 /t͡ʃʰ/ |
 /t͡ʂʰ/-/t͡sᶲ/ |
 /k͡xʰ/ |
 /t͡ɬʰ/ |
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| Approximant |  /w/ |
 /j/ |
 /l̪ / l/ |
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| Trill |  /r/-/ʀ/[c] |
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| Tap or Flap |  /ɽ/ |
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| Click |  /ʘʰ/ |
 /ǀʰ/ |
 /ǃʰ/ |
 /ǂʰ/ |
 /ǁʰ/ |
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| Nasal |  /m/ |
 /n̪/ |
 /n/ |
 /ɲ/ |
 /ŋ/ |
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| Syllabic Nasal |  /m̩/ |
 /n̩/ |
 /ɲ̩/-/ŋ̍/ |
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| Syllabic Approximant/ Trill |
 /r̩/ (r̩.rV)[d] |
 /l̩/ (l̩.lV)[d] |
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These graphemes can combine with each other in accordance with the phonotactics of siNtu languages, and they also can combine with the articulatory mode graphemes.
The table below displays the typed and handwritten version of the graphemes :
| Voiceless Consonant | Voiced Consonant | Handwritten version | |||||||||
| Post-alveolar Fricative | /ʃ/ |
 /ʒ/ |
 /ʒ/ |
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| Retroflex Fricative | /ʂ/-/sᶲ/ |
 /ʐ/-/z̤ᵝ/ |
 /ʐ/-/z̤ᵝ/ |
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| Post-alveolar Affricate | /t͡ʃ/ |
 /d͡ʒ/ |
 /d͡ʒ/ |
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| Retroflex Affricate | /t͡ʂ/-/t͡sᶲ/ |
 /d͡ʐ/-/d͡z̤ᵝ/ |
 /d͡ʐ/-/d͡z̤ᵝ/ |