| t | tó (water) | tea |
| k | ké (shoe) | kit |
The t and k in Navaho are much more heavily aspirated than in the English words given in the examples, so that the aspiration has a harsh fricative quality.
| ' | glottal stop | yá'át'ééh (it is good) | unh unh, oh oh |
In the American colloquial negative unh unh, and in the exclamatory expression oh oh, the glottal stop precedes the u and the o respectively. Or, in actual speech, the difference between Johnny earns and Johnny yearns, is that the former has a glottal closure between the two words.
| t' | yá'át'ééh (it is good) |
This letter represents the sound produced by the almost simultaneous release of the breath from the closure formed by the tip of the tongue and the teeth and the glottal closure described previously.
| k' | k'ad (now) |
This sound is produced in the same way as the t', except that the k closure is formed by the back of the tongue and the soft palate.
| m | mósí (cat) | man |
| n | naadą́ą́' (corn) | no |
| s | sis (belt) | so |
| sh | shash (bear) | she |
| z | zas (snow) | zebra |
| zh | 'ázhi' (name) | azure |
| l | laanaa (would that) | let |
| ł | łid (smoke) |
This sound is made with the tongue in exactly the same position as in the ordinary l, but the voice box or larynx does not function. The difference between these two l's is the same as the difference between the b and p, d and t, or s and z. If one attempts to pronounce th as in thin followed by l without an intervening vowel a ł is produced. Thus athłete.