Phonology
Consonantal inventory of Proto-Tsimshian:
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar |
Uvular | Labio- uvular |
Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-continuous obstruent |
*p | *t | *ts | *k | *kʷ | *q | *qʷ | *ʔ, *ʔʷ | ||
| *pʼ | *tʼ | *tsʼ | *kʼ | *kʷʼ | *qʼ | *qʷʼ | ||||
| Fricative | *s, *ɬ | *x | *χ | *χʷ | *h, *hʷ | |||||
| Approximant | *l | *j | *w | |||||||
| *lˀ | *jˀ | *wˀ | ||||||||
| Nasal | *m | *n | ||||||||
| *mˀ | *nˀ | |||||||||
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