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On the surface, at least, Yoke has the following sounds:
 
Vowels {{IPA|/a e i o u/}}
 
{| class="wikitable" IPAstyle="text-align:center;"
|+Consonants
! colspan="2" |
|{{IPAlink|p}} ||{{IPAlink|t}} ||{{IPAlink|k}}
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Coronal consonant|Coronal]]
! [[Dorsal consonant|Dorsal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPAlink|b}} ||{{IPAlink|d}} ||{{IPAlink|ɡ}}
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| {{IPA link|ɲ}}
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Plosive]]
|{{IPAlink|β}} ||{{IPAlink|ɾ}} ||{{IPAlink|ɣ}}
!<small>[[voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
|-
!<small>[[voiced]]</small>
|{{IPAlink|m}} ||{{IPAlink|n}} ||{{IPAlink|ɲ}}
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|{{IPAlink|w}} ||{{IPAlink|s}} ||{{IPAlink|j}}
| {{IPA link|β}}
| {{IPA link|s}}
| {{IPA link|ɣ}}
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant]]
| {{IPA link|w}}
| {{IPA link|ɾ}}
| {{IPA link|j}}
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Vowels
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Central vowel|Central]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPA link|i}}
|
| {{IPA link|u}}
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| {{IPA link|e}}
|
| {{IPA link|o}}
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
| {{IPA link|a}}
|
|}
 
Unusually for a Papuan language, but like Warembori, Yoke has prepositions and a [[subject–verb–object]] (SVO) constituent order. Verbs have subject prefixes and may have one or more object suffixes. The verbal affixes are:
 
{| class="wikitable IPA"