Syllable Structure
The syllable structure of Kedayan is (C)V(C), with an obligatory vowel preceded and followed by an optional consonant.
Some words such as kuat (‘strong’) that phonemically have two syllables /ku.at/ may be produced phonetically as [kwat]. In the recorded passage, the informant varies between bisyllabic [kuʷat] and and monosyllabic [kwat] for this word.