Stops, oral or nasal, may or may not have a release burst before a nasal stop, depending on the speaker. The initial clusters are unusual cross-linguistically. The spectrum shows that the tongue moves towards an alveolar articulation during the of , demonstrating that it is not articulated as a velar. The initial clusters and are sometimes realized as two released stops, but sometimes with a single release, resembling ejective consonants in other languages. ( is again notably missing, except intervocalically, despite the fact that is the most common ejective cross-linguistically.)