Datapoint Sango/Syllable onsets

Phonetically complex consonants are regarded as units, such as /mb/ and /gb/, series of prenasalized and co-articulated stops as in other Ubangian languages. But I consider /kw/, /gw/, on the one hand, and /by/ and /gy/, on the other, to be comprised of sequences. The sequence /Cy/ occurs only as a variant of /Ci/.
Only /kw/ and /gw/, sequences of stop and /w/, occur. As the result of contraction, the phonology of Sango of the youth especially is quite different from what it used to be and unlike the phonologies of other Ubangian languages. For example, the preposition /ti/ can occur as /tm/ with /m/ carrying the high tone of the preposition. Another example is the word kumase (with a high frequency of occurrence) from French commencer: /koma, kmase, kwase, kme/.

Values

Only simple onsets

Example 59-50:
ala ke (yeke) na ndwa / ala ke (na) ndwa?
ala
3pl
ke
cop
na
at
ndo
place
wa?
what
Where are they?
Example 59-368:
da
da
house
house

Source: Bouquiaux et al. 1978: 433

Example 59-369:
mbo
mbo
dog
dog
Example 59-370:
kpo
kpo
stab
to stab
Example 59-371:
mleenge/melenge/menge
melenge
child
child
Example 59-372:
ngia/ngya
ngia/ngya
game
game, pleasure
Example 59-373:
kwe/gwe
kwe/gwe
all/go
all/go
Confidence:
Very certain