Teaching
Despite the alphabetic nature of its script, Manchu was not taught phoneme by phoneme per letter like western languages are, rather, Manchu children were taught to memorize all the syllables in the Manchu language separately as they learned to write, like Chinese characters. The western way is referred to as "liquid", therefore, Manchu syllables are non "liquid".
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