Filipino syllables are analyzed according to how a word is produced in its sound representation in written form, both in the conventional form or phonetic transcription. The glottal stop /?/ is considered a consonant phonemically and due to this realization, changes in the traditional syllable analysis will be reflected.

As sounded orally, all vowel sounds are produced before a glottal stop. I phonemic transcription this will be written:

/?a ?e ?i ?o ?u/

The following will be transcribed:

alis - /?alis/

aalis - /?a:?a:lis/

maari - /ma:?a:?a:ri?/

If every sound will be represented syllabically occurrences would be:

/?alis/ = cv + cvc

/?a:?a:lis/ = cv + cv + cvc

/ma:?a:?a:ri?/ = cv + cv + cv + cvc

As in any languages, Filipino also accepts into its system foreign words which in the process became a part of its spoken language, Due to this, consonant clusters, exist in our word syllables, initially, medically, and finally as in:

initially: drama sweter bwena mano

kwitis tsokolate kloset tren

medially: sumbrero timpla londri

finally: Robert nars teks

Syllabically this will be reflected as:

initially : drama = ccv + cv

medically : sumbrero = cvc + ccv + cv

finally : nars - cvcc

In general, Filipino syllables occurrences fall under these sequences: