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-===Consonants===
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
-|+ Consonant phonemes
-|-
-!
-! Labial
-! Coronal
-! Guttural
-|-
-! Nasal
-| m
-| n
-| ŋ
-|-
-! Stops
-| p b
-| t tʷ
-| k kʷ g
-|-
-! Fricatives
-| f v
-| s sʷ
-| h
-|-
-! Approximants
-| w
-| j
-| ʍ<sup>1</sup>
-|}
-Notes:
-# During allophonic realisation, /w/ is affected by /ʍ/, however, in the writing system, it is seen and analysed as the soft version of /h/
-===Vowels===
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 250px"
-|+ Vowel Phonemes
-|-
-!
-! Front
-! Back
-|-
-! Close
-| i
-| u
-|-
-! Mid
-| e
-| o
-|-
-! Open
-| colspan="2" |a
-|}
 ===Orthography===
+Kawa uses the Latin script with 2 additional letters: ⟨Ŋŋ⟩, ⟨Ƿƿ⟩
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
 |+ Kawa Alphabet
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 |}
-===Prosody===
+===Consonants===
-====Stress====
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
-====Intonation====
+|+ Consonant phonemes
+|-
+!
+! Labial
+! Coronal
+! Guttural
+|-
+! Nasal
+| m
+| n
+| ŋ
+|-
+! Stops
+| p b
+| t tʷ
+| k kʷ g
+|-
+! Fricatives
+| f v
+| s sʷ
+| h
+|-
+! Approximants
+| w
+| j
+| ʍ<sup>1</sup>
+|}
+Notes:
+# During allophonic realisation, /w/ is affected by /ʍ/, however, in the writing system, it is seen and analysed as the soft version of /h/
+===Vowels===
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 250px"
+|+ Vowel Phonemes
+|-
+!
+! Front
+! Back
+|-
+! Close
+| i
+| u
+|-
+! Mid
+| e
+| o
+|-
+! Open
+| colspan="2" |a
+|}
 ===Phonotactics===
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 /kn/, /gn/, /st/, /stʷ/, /sk/, /skʷ/, /kʷʍ/, /tʷʍ/, /sʷʍ/, /Nw/, /Nʍ/<sup>1</sup>, /Nj/<sup>2</sup>, /mb/
-# If a nasal consonant is followed by a /ʍ/, the nasal becomes voiceless
+# [+nasal] > [-voice] /_ʍ
-## m > m̥/_ʍ
+# A speaker may realise /nj/ as /ɲ/ (nj > ɲ)
-## n > n̥/_ʍ
-## ŋ > ŋ̊/_ʍ
-# A speaker may realise /nj/ as /ɲ/
 '''V'''
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 /m/, /ŋ/, /b/, /g/, /t/, /f/, /v/, /s/
-===Morphophonology===
 ==Morphology==
 <!-- How do the words in your language look? How do you derive words from others? Do you have cases? Are verbs inflected? Do nouns differ from adjectives? Do adjectives differ from verbs? Etc. -->
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 ===Verbs===
-Verbs are marked for tense and mood with a particle
+Verbs are marked for tense and mood with a particle.
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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 ! Present
 | gaŋqe
-| rowspan="3" |qeqe!
+| rowspan="3" |qeqe
 | gaqegaŋ
 |-