| Phoneme | Sound | Spelling | Notes | | p/ | voiceless bilabial plosive | p | |
| p/ | ejective bilabial plosive | b' | Spelt "b" in the Popol Vuh |
| t/ | voiceless dental plosive | t | |
| t/ | ejective dental plosive | t' | Spelt "tt" in the Popol Vuh |
| k/ | voiceless velar plosive | k | Spelt "c" (or "qu" before "e", "i") in the Popol Vuh. |
| k/ | ejective velar plosive | k' | Spelt "3" in the Popol Vuh. |
| q/ | voiceless uvular plosive | q | Spelt "k" in the Popol Vuh. |
| q/ | ejective uvular plosive | q' | Spelt "4" in the Popol Vuh. |
| / | voiceless glottal plosive | ' | Indicated by doubling a preceding vowel in the Popol Vuh. |
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" |Affricates |
| ts/ | voiceless alveolar affricate | tz | |
| ts/ | ejective alveolar affricate | tz' | Spelt "4," in the Popol Vuh |
| |voiceless postalveolar affricate |ch | |
| / | ejective postalveolar affricate | ch' | Spelt "4h" in the Popol Vuh |
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" |Fricatives |
| s/ | voiceless alveolar fricative | s | Spelt "z" in the Popol Vuh. |
| / | voiceless postalveolar fricative | x | |
| x/ | voiceless velar fricative | j | Spelt "h" in the Popol Vuh. |
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" |Nasals |
| m/ | bilabial nasal | m | |
| n/ | alveolar nasal | n | |
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" |Laterals and Rhotics |
| l/ | alveolar lateral approximant | l | |
| |alveolar flap |r | |
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" |Semivowels and/or Semiconsonants |
| j/ | palatal approximant | y | |
| w/ | labio-velar approximant | w | Spelt "u" or "v" in the Popol Vuh. |
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" |Vowels |
| |open front unrounded vowel |a | |
| |mid centre unrounded vowel | |Not distinguished from "a" in the Popol Vuh. |
| e/ | close-mid front unrounded vowel | e | |
| i/ | close front unrounded vowel | i | |
| o/ | close-mid back rounded vowel | o | |
| u/ | close back rounded vowel | u |