There are at least 20 consonants in Zyihobish. However, due to variants in pronunciation depending on the speaker, there might be 21 or 22 consonants.

There are variants in pronunciations across dialects, for different morphemes in words. Depending on active phonemes of each speaker:
* Only /v/ is used, or only /ɓ/ is used, or both /v/ and /ɓ/ are used
* Only /ɣ/ is used, or only /ɠ/ is used, or both /ɣ/ and /ɠ/ are used
However, all speakers are able to passively distinguish all these consonants.

In some other dialects, /u/ and /eɪ/ might be replaced by /ʊ/ and /ɪ/ respectively, independently as active phonemes, or they might lexically be in free variation. However, all speakers are able to passively distinguish all these vowels.

The most common syllable structure is (C)(C)V(V)(C)(C).

Consonant clusters have either /l/ or /ɹ/ as the interior consonant, and a limited set of exterior consonants (usually does not include /l/, /ɹ/ or /ɻ/).

The Northeastern dialect has additional consonant clusters that might not be used in all other dialects. This includes:
+ Plosive+fricative cluster in the onset, and Fricative+plosive cluster in the coda
+ /ɻɖʰ/ and /ɻʐ/ in the coda

Stress in Zyihobish:
* Stress prefers to be on a diphthong in a root.
* Stress prefers to be on a syllable that is adjacent to a syllable with /ə/ in a root.
* Else, stress is always on its most possible initial syllable in a word.

The Zyihobish script is mainly an abjad, but can function as an alphabet or abugida in some usages or other languages. It is written right-to-left, downwards.

There are several spelling and pronunciation variants for the same word as there are many dialects.

This abjad system has 20 consonant graphemes and 1 blank vowel grapheme. There are 4 optional vowel diacritics, which can be not added and the word will still be acceptable.

The blank vowel grapheme e usually corresponds to /ə/, if there is no other indicator. This phoneme is also used for epenthesis.