Phonology
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Radical | Glottal | ||||||||
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central | lateral | ||||||||||||||
lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||||||||
Plosive | b | d | ɡ | ||||||||||||
p | t | k | kː | ʔ | |||||||||||
tʼ | kʼ | kːʼ | |||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡sː | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃː | t͡ɬː | q͡χː | |||||||||
t͡sʼ | t͡sːʼ | t͡ʃʼ | t͡ʃːʼ | (t͡ɬːʼ) | q͡χːʼ | ||||||||||
Fricative | s | sː | ʃ | ʃː | ɬ | ɬː | x | xː | χ | χː | ʜ | ||||
v | z | ʒ | ʁ | ʢ | ɦ | ||||||||||
Trill | r | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | l | j |
- Note that the source names a radical series ″pharyngeal″ indiscriminately in all the tables, also when it includes a plosive and thus clearly isn't a true pharyngeal.
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